The Story: A big budget movie descends upon a quaint town, sowing a bumper crop of corruption, vanity and greed. Thrown out of his original location, director Walt Price (Macy) certainly has his work cut out for him as he moves the production to a new town... The movie's star Bob Berrenger (Baldwin) is a celebrity heartthrob with a prediliction for under-aged girls, which canny local teenager Carla (Julia) proves quite effective at exploiting. This sends the sensitive screenwriter Joe (Hoffman), sole witness to the affair, into a moral dilemma. To make matters worse, the film's leading lady, Claire (Parker), refuses to do her contracted nude scene! Polished producer Marty Rossen (Paymer) arrives to apply his inimitable powers of persuasion; negotiating with Claire and her agent, keeping an eye on Bob, tangling with the law, and getting rewrites out of Joe. In the days that elapse before the cameras finally roll, money will change hands, careers will be jeopardised and love will bloom.
 
�I went to the wardrobe fitting, and I was like 'Am I supposed to seduce somebody in flannels?'" On her character: "She�s very on top of what she is doing. She�s read so much about Bob that by the time he arrives, she knows all the right things to say." "It was the greatest learning experience for me. I was around all these skilled actors. I felt really humbled."
Did You Know? State And Main won 'Best Ensemble Cast' 2001 at the National Board of Review USA, Florida Film Critics Circle Awards and the Online Film Critics Society Awards Filming took place between September and November 1999
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