Episode 62 – Meet Us At The Intersection of State & Main

State & Main

Today we are talking about the 2000 David Mamet film State and Main. The film has a huge ensemble cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H Macy, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rebecca Pidgeon,Clark Gregg, Julia Stiles, Charles Durning, and Patti LuPone. It is a film about a small town that is taken over when a Hollywood film cast and crew descend to produce a film called The Old Mill. As Patti LuPone pointed out it is “an affectionate skewering of the movie business. We do this because we love the business and to see it portrayed in this way is a loving tribute.”

Walt Price: This is what my people died for… the right to make a movie in this town. 

Source: IMDB.com

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

• The doctor bit throughout the film
• The spotlight on actors who behave badly
• The sadness in the film’s writer Philip Seymour Hoffman
• A celebrity sighting near the end of the film

Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts.

Next week’s film will be The Player available on HBOMax

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