State and Main

10/8/2025

**_A film crew descends upon a New England town…_** …with William H. Macy playing the director, Philip Seymour Hoffman the troubled writer and David Paymer the no-nonsense producer. Written & directed by David Mamet, it’s a dialogue-driven quirky comedy/drama that pokes fun at the film business. The dialogue is fairly rat-a-tat-tat and so you’ll probably miss a lot of good lines, but this gives the flick great rewatch value. I loved the one about the director’s favorite pillow, which says “Shoot first and ask questions afterwards.” Yet there are dozens of amusing bits, such as the running joke about giving someone an assistant producer credit and the pothole on main street. The only thing I didn’t care for was the preoccupation in the second half with a car accident involving Alec