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Watch: State and Main 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – Having left New Hampshire over excessive demands by the locals, the cast and crew of “The Old Mill” moves their movie shoot to a small town in Vermont. However, they soon discover that The Old Mill burned down in 1960, the star can’t keep his pants zipped, the starlet won’t take her top off, and the locals aren’t quite as easily conned as they appear..
Plot: A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
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	6.7/10 Votes: 21,482
	85% | RottenTomatoes
	75/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 171 Popularity: 7.486 | TMDB

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filming in a small town, Mamet style
William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Paymer, Charles Durning, Julia Stiles, and Rebecca Pidgeon star in “State and Main,” a 2000 film written and directed b David Mamet.

Macy is the director, Walt Price, of a film shooting on location. For reasons not disclosed, they’ve been run out of one small town and now are in another one in Vermont. With him are his writer, Joseph Turner White,(Hoffman), heretofore a playwright, his stars (Baldwin & Parker), and various other assistants, cameramen, etc.

The name of the film is “The Old Mill” and the exciting thing about this town is that it actually has one. Well, it had one – they find out it burned down. This is actually the least of their problems. The female star refuses to bare her breasts, though someone comments that most of America can draw them from memory; then she holds them up for $800,000. The male lead likes underage girls and gets in a car accident with one in the car. Unfortunately, the writer is a witness, and due to the influence of a townswoman, Ann, he has fallen for (Pidgeon) he wants to maintain his integrity.

The Mayor (Durning) is willing to turn over the whole town to them seemingly for free until someone finds out it would cost $6 million to build a set of the town, so all the playing up to the Mayor seems to be for nothing. And an attorney, ex-fiancé of Ann’s, is ready to extract revenge on the company by legal means.

Meanwhile, the wife of someone on the crew is having a baby, White can’t type because he caught his finger in a fish hook, and the Price keeps asking for the scene where the horse dies. When White says, “You know you can’t kill a horse,” the director’s angry answer is “f— me.” I’m sure some of this is very true to life, especially the director being hounded from all sides constantly and having to put out a million fires. Also the cover-up of the accident I’m sure has happened. The movie captures the awe that townspeople have when Hollywood types come in to make a film, as well as the self-indulgence of the actors.

Most of the time, the film was pretty funny. It’s not Mamet’s best by any means. It’s a light story with some very good performances, particularly by Macy, who plays a determined director who pretends to be nice to perfection, and Hoffman, who walks around in a dream world on his first film. Baldwin nonchalantly gives us the narcissistic essence of his character, and Parker is a riot acting as if she’s being asked to commit murder instead of something she’s done a million times.

The end shouldn’t come as any surprise. I would say this is atypical Mamet that, had it not been for the stars, could have been a TV movie.

Brilliantly acted and refreshingly original!
I haven’t been thoroughly following David Mamet’s career, but just watching this film, “American Buffalo” and “Glengarry Glen Ross” I already get a feel of his unique style of writing. It’s very witty, very original and he has certain trademarks, like quick exchanges of dialogue between actors and repeating of the same sentence of dialogue in a group of lines. Well, his uniqueness is quite evident in watching this movie and it works quite well.

First I’ll mention the vast array of talented actors. I don’t think the casting could’ve been any better. Character actor William H. Macy is brilliant as the almost unscrupulous director, who will do ANYTHING–and I’m not exaggerating the least bit–to get his picture done. Fellow character actor/fellow PT Anderson regular Philip Seymour-Hoffman turns in another brilliant, yet subtle performance as the shy but appealing and wildly creative screenwriter who is the fuel of this cinematic project. As I said, he’s made a significant–and extremely impressive–transition from playing the airhead jerk in “Scent of a Woman” and “Twister” to playing deep character roles like this. He ranks among the top in my list of Best Underrated Actors (along with Macy) and I hope one of these days he’ll become a household name. David Peymer, I think, delivers the best performance of his career as the fast-talking, sniveling producer. I’ve always known he was a good actor, but he truly flaunts his knack for acting and taking risks in this role. It figures that playwright Mamet would assemble a group of fine character actors, instead of simply casting people who “look good on camera.” That’s one of the advantages of having a playwright as a director.

The script is wildly original and kept me laughing. There are many interesting, memorable quotes. And this is just a fine adult comedy (Thank God!!). With the explosion of teen gross-out comedies, I’m sure audiences will cherish a comedy like this. It works in all aspects. Not only is it well-performed, but it’s well-written (lots of comedies only contain one of those factors). And it’s all done in good taste. So those of you expecting cheap sex jokes and low-brow gags involving bodily functions–sorry to disappoint you! There are no cliches. This movie is an explosion of Mamet’s gift for creativity. Take for example, the relationship between Hoffman and the beautiful Rebecca Pidgeon. They don’t have a sex scene. Most of their screen time is spent talking and getting to know each other, sharing their thoughts on writing, researching the town’s history, finding out how much they have in common. Do we still see that in the movies? Character development in romance? In the scene where Hoffman is in the hotel room with Sarah Jessica Parker lying on the bed naked, and Pidgeon knocks on his door to greet him with a bouquet of flowers, there’s no predictability. You would assume she would take one look at Parker’s naked body and punch him in face. I’m not going to give away what happens, but that moment stuck in my mind, because it is the first film I’ve seen to go a different route with the whole “girlfriend catches you in bed with another girl” premise.

“State and Main” is pleasant, light-hearted, funny, original comedy and it’s one I’d definitely recommend. If you want to see great performances and laugh at good, tasteful humor–you can’t go wrong!

My score: 7 (out of 10)

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director David Mamet
Writer David Mamet
Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon
Country France, United States
Awards 7 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Toronto, Canada (prints), DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (color)
Film Length 2,889 m (Sweden), 3,011 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm