State and Main: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script)
Mamet has few peers in contemporary American literature, and it can be easy to overlook his deftly light and playful side. He has some 18 screenplays to his credit, and State and Main marks his seventh feature as both writer and director. The conceit of this take on screwball comedies is a film within a film. Forced to bolt from their New Hampshire location because their leading man has a propensity for junior high school girls, the film company is relocated to the bucolic hamlet of Waterford, VT. The interplay, hijinks, and machinations, romantic and political, between the film folk and townies are right out of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges. The script prominently features Mamet's signature staccato dialog and uses its comedic framework to skewer both Hollywood and small-town U.S.A. Mamet provides an introduction, production stills, and full cast and crew credits. Mamet's work should be comprehensively collected by all libraries.Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.