This Is Sp?nal Tap is a 1984 mock rockumentary directed by Rob Reiner and starring members of the fictional heavy-metal/hard rock band Spinal Tap. The film satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard-rock and heavy-metal bands, as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rockumentaries of the time.
This Is Sp?nal Tap is a 1984 mock rockumentary directed by Rob Reiner and starring members of the fictional heavy-metal/hard rock band Spinal Tap. The film satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard-rock and heavy-metal bands, as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rockumentaries of the time.
Rob Reiner
as Marty DiBergi
Christopher Guest
as Nigel Tufnel
Michael McKean
as David St. Hubbins
Harry Shearer
as Derek Smalls
R.J. Parnell
as Mick Shrimpton
Tony Hendra
as Ian Faith
David Kaff
as Viv Savage
Fran Drescher
as Bobbi Flekman
Patrick Macnee
as Sir Denis Eton-Hogg
June Chadwick
as Jeanine Pettibone
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Review of This Is Spinal Tap 1984
"This Is Spinal Tap" is the stuff that legendary films are made of: it is hilarious, has memorable quotes ("These go to eleven" having become a cliché among metalheads), pokes fun at itself as much as at its characters, shows real underlying affection for the bands parodied in it, and is above all t
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