State And Main Page #3

Synopsis: FADE IN: EXT. FIREHOUSE - DAY Ann is walking down the street. The firedog runs out of the firehouse, she gives the dog a biscuit, and pats him on the head. The fireman is out front with a cup of coffee. Ann hands him a poster. EXT. STATE AND MAIN - INTERSECTION - DAY Morris and Spud, two codgers, are about to cross the street when they hear a beeping and stop. As they cross, we see the tail end of a van, and the group nods in that direction. MORRIS You hear that? SPUD Yes, I hear it. MORRIS Drive a man to drink. Took me near half an hour, get across the street yesterday.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Production: Fine Line Features
  7 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2000
105 min
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UBERTO is asleep. Bill wakes him up.

UBERTO:

Where are we?

WALT:

Givvem a cigarette...

Uberto comes out of the car and squints around.

UBERTO:

...they ship our Old Mill from New

Hampshire...?

BILL:

They're holding our Old Mill for

ransom.

UBERTO:

We build it?

BILL:

We don't have to build it.

He shows Uberto the brochure.

UBERTO:

We build the firehut...?

Walt shows Uberto the Firehouse. Uberto looks through the

viewfinder.

UBERTO:

We have to lose the window.

WALT:

...we can't lose the wind...

UBERTO:

(pulling out

storyboards)

Then I can't do this shot... you

wants me to push in -- I can't push

in through the window... We go back

to New Hampshire?

BILL:

NO, we can't ever go back to New

Hampshire.

A pickup truck with two calves in it stops, the driver seen

from the back is a farmer smoking a pipe.

WALT:

NO, we're gonna stay here. This is

what my people died for. The right

to make a movie in this town.

INT. TAVERN INN LOBBY - DAY

A desk clerk looks up. Behind the desk a display of several

souvenir plates, "Souvenir of Waterford, VT", with a picture

of the Old Mill on them. Walt picks one up and hands it to

Bill.

DESK CLERK:

May I help you?

WALT:

(followed Bill)

I want to talk to the manager...

Walt talks into his cell phone as he talks to the clerk.

DESK CLERK:

Would you like a room?

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. more…

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