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Play trailer Poster for Main Street PG Released Sep 9, 2011 1h 32m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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A stranger (Colin Firth) becomes involved with the close-knit residents of a North Carolina town after he arrives with a controversial plan to save their crumbling community.
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Joe Leydon Variety Uneven performances, flat direction and an overall sense of narrative arbitrariness keep "Main Street" from being anything more than a minor footnote to the career of much-lauded playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote. Feb 23, 2012 Full Review Alison Willmore Movieline Main Street is an ensemble drama that functions as a display case for a range of regional drawls, from the authentic to absurd. Rated: 4/10 Sep 8, 2011 Full Review Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press It's not groundbreaking, but it's pleasant enough. Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 20, 2011 Full Review Marshall Fine Hollywood & Fine Like a small firecracker that turns out to be a dud..as dead as the city it depicts..Durham ought to sue for libel. Sep 9, 2011 Full Review Brian Orndorf BrianOrndorf.com There's something interesting here at the core of the conflict, but the story is offered so little room to breathe, coming across rushed and undercooked. Rated: C Aug 26, 2011 Full Review Andrew Moraitis FILMINK (Australia) This disappointingly suffers from some uninspired direction and a clutch of odd casting choices, which never work. May 20, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D The great cast kept it engaging. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/24 Full Review Laurie G Was a dreadfully boring movie. Kept waiting for something to happen but it never did. So much whining!! terrible accents, again the stories just went nowhere you kept waiting for something to happen. I think there was underlining substance there for one of those stories to take off and actually go somewhere and let something actually happen but it never did! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/10/23 Full Review Lieutenant D One of the worst movies I've ever seen. The acting is not bad, but the script is terrible. I kept watching to see the beginning of the plot. There was no plot. Save your time Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Not good! I can't believe Colin and Orlando allowed themselves to be in it Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Studded with Oscar-tier veteran performers and younger capable talent, this film doesn't have more appeal beyond that. By the beginning of the third act it becomes quite apparent that the story is nearly completely pedestrian. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Review: Personally, I couldn't see the point of this movie. All the way through the film I thought that there was going to be a major twist, especially with Firth's character, but nothing really happens. Its about a small community which used to be the main producers for cigarettes and Firth company decides to rent some space in the town to store hazardous waste. The lady that he is renting the space from, has severe money problems and she is scared about losing her house so she is relying on the rental money to keep her house. Once her niece realises that the company is storing waste, she decides to take action but after a bad accident with one of the trucks that was transporting the waste, Firth decides to leave the business. I honestly found the movie cheap and really boring. The cast sounded promising, with Colin Firth and Orlando Bloom taking the lead, but the movie was a waste of time and money. The acting isn't that bad from the cast but I didn't like Bloom and Firth's terrible deep South accents and I didn't find any of the characters that interesting. I'm glad that the director didn't make it into a 2 hour epic movie because the storyline really does dry up after a while, which is a shame because it would have been half decent if there was actually a point to the characters individual stories. Disappointing! Round-Up: After the successful Lord Of The Rings and Pirates Of The Caribbean movies, I thought that Orlando Bloom was going to be a major star but I haven't really seen him shine in any other movies. At the age of 38 he still has a chance to prove that he can really act, away from the big budget movies, but I'm yet to see him do anything that great. As for the award winning Colin Firth, this just has to go down as another bad day at the office but he really does need to make some better choices in the movies that he takes on. In this film, Bloom and Firth only really cross paths once so the director really didn't take advantage of the cast. He also could have made some use of Andrew McCarthy, who has been missing from the big screen for ages but he only had a little part which wasn't that memorable. At the end of the day, I really didn't enjoy this film but I will give it a couple of stars, just for Ellen Burstyn's performance. Budget: N/A Worldwide Gross: $2,560 (Really Terrible!) I recommend this movie to people who are into their dramas about a small town which is promised a prosperous future after a company rents an available warehouse to store hazardous chemicals. 2/10 Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A stranger (Colin Firth) becomes involved with the close-knit residents of a North Carolina town after he arrives with a controversial plan to save their crumbling community.
Director
John Doyle
Producer
Megan Ellison, Jonah M. Hirsch, Spencer Silna
Screenwriter
Horton Foote
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
Annapurna Pictures
Rating
PG (Smoking|Mild Thematic Elements|Brief Language)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 9, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.6K
Runtime
1h 32m
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