Main Street
January 3, 2010
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Plot
Several residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown…
Release Year: 2010
Rating: 4.7/10 (1,055 voted)
Director:
John Doyle
Stars: Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson
Storyline
Several residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown. In the midst of today's challenging times, each of the colorful citizens of this close-knit North Carolina community, will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood.
Cast:
Colin Firth
–
Gus Leroy
Ellen Burstyn
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Georgiana Carr
Patricia Clarkson
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Willa Jenkins
Orlando Bloom
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Harris Parker
Amber Tamblyn
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Mary Saunders
Margo Martindale
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Myrtle Parker
Andrew McCarthy
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Howard Mercer
Victoria Clark
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Miriam
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
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Mayor
Tom Wopat
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Frank
Viktor Hernandez
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Estaquio
Juan Piedrahita
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Jose
(as Juan Carlos Piedrahita)
Thomas Upchurch
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Trooper Williams
Reid Dalton
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Crosby Gage
Amy da Luz
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Rita
Taglines:
An offer too good to be true… it just might be
Details
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Release Date: 3 Jan 2010
Filming Locations: Durham, North Carolina, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $10,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $1,553
(USA)
(11 September 2011)
(1 Screen)
Gross: $2,560
(USA)
(30 January 2012)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Ellen Burstyn's character, "Georgiana Carr," bears the last name of an actual Durham, N.C., family that was prominent in the tobacco business. The large portrait in her house, showing a uniformed man with a big white mustache, is a picture of Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924), one of Durham's earliest tobacco magnates, who was involved in a variety of other business enterprises and was a highly regarded philanthropist. The portrait normally resides in the North Carolina Collection of the Durham County Public Library.
Goofs:
Continuity:
While Mary and her mother are talking in her bedroom, her mother's hair changes position – alternately behind and in front of her ear.
User Review
Wasted Talent
Rating: 4/10
When I saw the movie had actors Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom, Amber
Tamblyn, Patricia Clarkson participating I thought this would be a
movie worth watching, unfortunately I was mistaken.
While the actors do a good job with what they were provided with, the
movie does nothing for them, it is a go nowhere movie that to me was a
complete waste of time, thankfully not a huge amount of time to waste
considering the length of the movie.
I have long been a big fan of Colin Firth and generally seek out movies
that he is in. Unfortunately, while I felt he did a good job I think he
made a bad choice with this one.
4 out of 10 for me.