State and Main (2000)

Part of Peter Traver's Top 10 list from 2000, I gave this comedy I haven't heard much about a shot. Come to find out that the cast includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin, Julia Stiles, and a few other faces you would recognize. Also there is an uncredited cameo by John Krasinski at the very end.

The film is about a film cast and crew looking for a new town after being forced out of their previous one. The new town they come upon is a sleepy little town in Vermont that boasts about their "old mill" which is a centerpiece in this film. Come to find out that the mill burned down in 1960 and the script now needs some major work since the title was "The Old Mill."

I can see how this might have been better 10 years ago, but I didn't find it to be anything special, and this wasn't Hoffman's best performance... he is still quite green.

Vote: 6/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120202/

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