Pittsburgh is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film that follows American actor Jeff Goldblum as he attempts to secure a green card for his Canadian actor/singer/dancer girlfriend Catherine Wreford by appearing with her as the leads in a summer regional theatre production of The Music Man in Goldblum's hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The film features numerous other famous personalities portraying themselves, including Ed Begley Jr. (who had worked with Goldblum on Transylvania 6-5000), Illeana Douglas (who directed Goldblum in her own film Supermarket), Moby (as Douglas's boyfriend), Conan O'Brien and Craig Kilborn (hosting Goldblum on their respective shows), Alanis Morissette, and Tom Cavanagh.

Pittsburgh (2006 film)

Though some of the primary events of the story took place (for example, Goldblum did perform The Music Man with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera at the Benedum Center, though that performance was staged solely for the film) "Pittsburgh" was, with a few improvisational flourishes, totally scripted. Many of the deleted scenes included on the DVD release of the film are far more overtly comic than those the filmmakers chose to include in the finished product and make the fictional nature of the project more obvious.

Pittsburgh (2006 film)

Cast

Jeff Goldblum as himself

Conan O'Brien as himself

Catherine Wreford as herself

Ed Begley Jr. as himself

Illeana Douglas as herself

Moby as himself

Craig Kilborn as himself

Alanis Morissette as herself

Tom Cavanagh as himself

Jon Clunies as himself playing Ewart Dunlop in the Music Man

Flanzinee as himself

References

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2006 films

2000s mockumentary films

American mockumentary films

Films set in Pittsburgh

2006 comedy films

2000s English-language films

2000s American films

Pittsburgh (2006 film)