Production Year: 2000 - Comedy - Director: David Mamet - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Julia Stiles, Alec Baldwin, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Charles Durning, Clark Gregg, Patti Lupone more
Advantages: classy, intelligent film, excellent cast Disadvantages: few dvd extras, Rebecca Pidgeon
This is one of my favourite films. It's understated quirky black humour and it has a great cast, plus a sharp script by David Mamet.
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The basic premise is that a Hollywood film crew show up in a small Vermont town having been mysteriously kicked out of their previous location, in order to film scenes for their movie (duh). They pick the town for its existing 'old mill' although after they arrive they discover it burned down years ...
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State And Main [DVD] [2001]
"A sleepy Vermont town", notes writer-director David Mamet, outlining the plot ofState and ... more
Main, "gets invaded by a movie company and ... everyone in the town is suborned, polluted, saddened and ruined. So it's a comedy." As indeed it is--and, despite ...
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