State and Main
- type
- Movie
- Current Status
- In Season
- mpaa
- R
- runtime
- 106 minutes
- Limited Release Date
- 12/22/00
- Wide Release Date
- 01/12/01
- performer
- Alec Baldwin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Charles Durning, Patti LuPone, William H. Macy, David Paymer, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, Julia Stiles
- director
- David Mamet
- Producers
- El Dorado Pictures, Filmtown Entertainment, Green/Renzi
- distributor
- New Line Cinema
- author
- David Mamet
- genre
- Comedy
We gave it a B+
David Mamet’s delectably caustic comedy about the making of a big Hollywood movie in a small New England town. William H. Macy draws on electric glints of duplicity to play Walt Price, a celebrated film director who spins the world around his ability to lie — and laugh — in its face. The movie has the vacuum-packed atmosphere of all the films Mamet has directed, yet cleverness, heightened to a pitch of acid-tongued amorality, is both its flavor and its meaning. Mamet has crafted a screwball Day for Night for the infotainment age. B+
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