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STATE AND MAIN  
United States
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 106 min.

When a cell-phone-wielding film production company invades a quaint New Hampshire town to film The Old Mill, the town's inhabitants are all too ready to jettison its pastoral grace for a taste of showbiz glitz. Part Hollywood satire, part screwball comedy, STATE AND MAIN follows screenwriter Joe White whose old-fashioned values are put to task when he is the only witness to a heartthrob movie star's indiscretion with a local teenage girl. The movie's smooth-talking director and its aggressive producer pressure Joe to put aside his convictions for the sake of the film and his future writing career. Meanwhile, Joe falls for a local bookseller who challenges him to stand up for the truth. Adding to the writer's troubles are some very-hard-to-resist temptations posed by the sexiest member of the cast and constant hassling from the town's starstruck mayor and his wife.
Script:  David Mamet.    Phot.:  Oliver Stapleton.    Cast:  Alex Baldwin, Charles Durning, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Patti LuPone, William H. Macy, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Paymer, Rebecca Pidgeon, Julia Stiles, Jim Frangione, Clark Gregg, Josh Marchette, Lonnie R. Smith.    Sales:  Sarah Green, Filmtown Entertainment, 5707 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038 (�tats-Unis), t�l.: (323) 464-6644, fax: (323) 464-6699 / UGC International, 2, rue des Quatre-Fils, 75003 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 40 29 89 00, fax: (33-01) 40 29 89 10.    Canadian Distributor:  Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.   
David Mamet
Playwright-filmmaker David Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947 and studied at Stoddard College in Vermont and the Neighbourhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York. He has taught at Stoddard, Yale Drama School and New York University and regularly lectures to classes at the Atlantic Theatre Company, of which he is a founding member. He began his career as an actor and director before achieving acclaim in 1976 for three Off-Off-Broadway plays, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and American Buffalo. In the '80s he launched an equally successful career in the cinema with his screenplay for the 1981 remake of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. He followed this with highly regarded scripts for THE VERDICT (1982) and THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987). That same year he made his own directorial debut with HOUSE OF GAMES. His filmography since, includes: THINGS CHANGE (1988), HOMICIDE (1991), OLEANNA (1994), THE SPANISH PRISONER (1997) and THE WINSLOW BOY (1999)


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