Movie Image State & Main - (* out of five)

Comedy. 1 hr. 45 min.
Rated R for language and brief sexual images.

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Charles Durning, Patti Lupone, Sarah Jessica Parker, William H. Macy.

Directed by David Mamet.
Produced by Alec Baldwin, Jon Cornick, Maggi Renzi and Sarah Green.
Written by David Mamet.
Release Date: December 22, 2000 Limited; January 12, 2001 Wide
Synopsis
IDirector David Mamet's STATE AND MAIN--about a movie crew that creates quite a stir when it begins filming in a quiet New England town--is a comic romp that pokes fun at Hollywood highbrows. Joe White (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is the screenwriter who heads up the crew, a man with traditional, puritanical values. When his lead actor (Alec Baldwin) begins a steamy affair with a local high school girl (Julia Stiles), White is thrown for a loop. Meanwhile, the rest of the cast and crew have gone wild, resulting in one silly, chaotic episode after the next.

Bill's Review

This movie had many good actors and some funny lines, but it never provided us with any reason to care about the plot. Karen and I were both bored stiff. We could not recommend it to anyone.