State and Main Rating: Release Date: 02 April, 2002 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $10.97 You SAVE: $9.01! Cast: Rebecca Pidgeon Julia Stiles Charles Durning Matt Malloy Complete Cast (9 total)

State and Main Reviews

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Best Thing on Film Ever
This is one of the very few movies that both my wife and I love and have watched several times and never get sick of it. It is hard to believe that David Mamet has something this good inside of him - it has to do with people not crime and violence.

If you like this one, you will probably like "Breaking Away", "Strictly Ballroom", "Dirty Dancing", "What Planet Are You From?" (Mike Nichols), and the Burt Reynolds classic "The End" (the movie for people who don't even like Burt Reymolds).

"GO HUSKIES!"
It sure sounds familiar. A Hollywood film crew causes havoc in a small American town while filming a movie. It seems they were kicked out of a previous small town due to the lead actor's (Alec Baldwin), penchant for young teenage girls. And it's deja vu all over again.

What I liked about "State and Main" is it's treatment of the small town locals as being as sophisticated, savvy, and in the case ot the young teenage girl, promiscuous as the blindsided big city moviemakers, while never abandoning it's Rockwellian small town charm, or it's big city smarts. It's a perfect marriage of the two cultures clashing, never wallwoing in the expected morales and pathos of its conflict.

The ensemble cast takes David Mamet's witty and clever script and flesh out the characters to sharp edged precision and humor. William H. Macy is perfectly and forgivingly corrupt as the film's director, (he'd kill a horse to make a dead horse scene look real), and Rebecca Pidgeon radiates a secure small town confidence as the local book store owner forced to abandon her plans for a community play, while setting her sights on the film's morally conflicted writer.



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