Dreams really do come true…

The influence of Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries is quite overt in Ricky Gervais’ The Office. In fact, the brilliant show wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for “This is Spinal Tap,” “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show.” My real dream is to star in a mockumentary, but I’ll settle for a Guest/Gervais team-up. I could barely get to sleep last night after I read that a team-up is really happening. Gervais will be starring in Guest’s latest flick “For Your Consideration.”

It will chart the making of an exquisitely bad indie film staring three actors whose lives are dramatically changed when they get wind of the fact they have been tipped for awards.

“We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about,” Guest told Variety magazine.

Gervais plays the head of a studio’s specialty division, who is producing the film, called Home for Purim. It is “an extraordinarily poorly written movie. It’s a melodrama, and it’s just awful. These actors never would have imagined that this movie was going to change their lives,” Guest said.

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A movie within a movie called “Home For Purim.”

It doesn’t get much better than that, does it?