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Director
David Mamet
Cast
Alec Baldwin,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
William H. Macy,
Sarah Jessica Parker,
Julia Stiles,
David Paymer
Genre
Comedy,
Drama
A troubled film production is forced to move locations to a small town in Vermont in the hopes that it has a genuine mill required for the film. Upon discovering the mill has burnt down, the set grows more chaotic, clashing egos and abrasive personalities all struggling to keep this film together.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
You may want to revisit this profanely hilarious Hollywood satire. . .just to catch the zingers the audience often drowns out with laughter. Hollywood corrupts absolutely, and Mamet turns the toxic process into the year's best and smartest comedy.
Film.com by Ernest Hardy
Writer/director David Mamet, who's built a career in both theater and film by being a hyper-manly sort of writer, has crafted a film that is laugh out loud funny and dinner-conversation smart.
Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
Bouncing giddily from subplot to subplot and wisecrack to wisecrack, Mamet and company (and this is one of the truest ensemble works in years) satirize the slippery morals of the film racket and the surface-only decency of small town America.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
A quintessentially wised-up insider comedy, ideally cast and filled with sharp writing from start to finish.
Variety
A bona fide populist laugh riot.
Variety by Eddie Cockrell
A bona fide populist laugh riot.
Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
A snarling satire of Hollywood single-mindedness and its lack of any moral underpinning.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Gently hilarious comedy.
New York Post by Lou Lumenick
Hilarious sweet and sour David Mamet comedy.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Delectably caustic comedy.
Dallas Observer by Bill Gallo
This is probably the funniest Mamet piece to date (but not the weightiest), and it might be destined to take a seat alongside "The Player" and "Sunset Boulevard" in the front row of movieland satires.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Desmond Ryan
His (Mamet) direction is unobtrusive, unflashy, and always willing to allow the hilarious cast all the room it needs.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Mamet's jabs at Tinseltown's silken ruthlessness are quietly pointed, and the ensemble cast -- even the brittle and sometimes annoying Pidgeon (Mamet's wife) -- is brilliant.
Salon by Charles Taylor
At its best, State and Main is fast and sharp, but when a movie like this goes off the rails, it's more disappointing than when a bad movie does.
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
State and Main is a Hollywood satire as cynical and thickheaded as its supposed targets.
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