Directed by David Mamet • 2000 • United States
Starring Alec Baldwin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charles Durning

Writer-director David Mamet channels Preston Sturges in this uproarious satire of both the movie industry and small-town America. When a big-budget Hollywood movie crew arrives in a quaint Vermont village—sowing a bumper crop of corruption, vanity, and greed—money will change hands, careers will be jeopardized, and love will bloom all before the cameras begin to roll. The director (William H. Macy) is engulfed in crisis; the first-time screenwriter (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tries vainly to maintain his integrity; the leading lady (Sarah Jessica Parker) doesn’t want to appear nude; and the star (Alec Baldwin) teeters on the verge of scandal. But events really spin out of control when the truth is revealed about an accident at the corner of State and Main.