Main Street (2010 film)
- Colin Firth: Gus Leroy
- Orlando Bloom: Harris Parker
- Amber Tamblyn: Mary Saunders
- Patricia Clarkson: Willa Jenkins
- Andrew McCarthy: Howard Mercer
- Ellen Burstyn: Georgiana Carr
- Margo Martindale: Mrs. Parker
- Tom Wopat: Frank
- Isiah Whitlock Jr.: Mayor
- Victoria Clark: Miriam
- Liam Ferguson: Henry
- Martin Thompson: Vaughn Guess
- Juan Piedrahita Jose
- Christopher Houldsworth: Man at the police station
- Reid Dalton: Crosby Gage
- Gezell Fleming: Rebecca
- Cheryl McConnell: Lucille
- Amy da Luz: Rita
- Victor Hernandez: Estaquio
- Nadya Simpson: Kate
- Michael Fraguada: Truck driver
- Cheri Varnadoe: Clara
- Thomas Upchurch: Williams
- Matt Whitnack: Driver
- Ednali Figueroa: Woman at the warehouse
- Veda Wilson: Shirley
- Stuart Hough: Raymond
- Rick Hamilton: Elliot
- J. W. Smith: Bill
- Luis Lopez: Truck driver
Main Street is an American film directed by John Doyle from the year 2010.
Action
The small town of Durham in North Carolina is facing existential difficulties. Close More and more small shops and more and more people leave the city to draw near to major shopping centers. Also, the old Georgiana Carr thinks, to sell their house, where she lived all her life, but she can no longer afford the upkeep of the huge building. The situation changes when the unknown Gus Leroy her an old warehouse rents, which is located in Georgianas possession. Only after some time it becomes clear that the building is used as an intermediate storage for hazardous waste. The residents of the town are worried and Georgiana wants to disagree supported by her niece Willa, an extension of the lease. However, Gus Leroy she can convince him the warehouse for another month for rent. Until then, he wants to convince the city council of the benefits of his company, but she is planning an expansion of the site in Durham, which has other dying cities helped back to recovery. Georgiana agrees to a one-month extension of the lease. Gus plans to speak the next day with the city administration and so to be able to decide on a contract between the city and his company for five years.
The young Mary Saunders is working with lawyer Howard Mercer, with whom she has a secret affair. Your childhood friend, the policeman Harris Parker, though she loves, but their affair secret from him. When she learns that Howard is married and has two children, she confronts him. The next day she is released and now plans to go to a big city, and so to leave the small town of Durham with all the memories behind. Harris, who cares in Durham his sick mother, she called a coward because he could never leave the city. Nevertheless, he drives her to the airport the next day.
On this day it is raining heavily. While Gus talks with the city council and the administration can convince them of the benefits of waste storage for the city, Harris, who brings Mary into his patrol car to the airport, is called to duty. Several transporters, which should bring containers with hazardous waste for storage in Durham, strayed on the wet road from the web and tumbled down an embankment. Gus, who is called to the scene, is horrified. However, it turns out that none of the vessel was damaged. A disaster was averted by the city, but seem to have smashed the plans of Gus with the accident. He now doubts his work, for fear of being laid off and decides to terminate at the end. Mary, who has missed through the use of their aircraft remains in Durham and comes back together with Harris. Georgiana has sold her house and is satisfied with the Neubesitzerin.
Production
Main Street was filmed from April to May 2009, in Durham City. The screenplay was written by Horton Foote, which in 1963 was awarded for the screenplay for the film To Kill a Mockingbird with an Oscar. Foote died in 2009, Main Street was his last completed screenplay.
Main Street was shown in May 2010 at the Market Place in Cannes at the same time to the film festival, then ran but only on small festivals, including the Austin Film Festival in October 2010 at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis and the Film Festival in Sedona, Arizona, in the November 2010.
Only in the course of the Oscar nomination and subsequent award Colin Firth for The King 's Speech also received renewed attention and Main Street was released on November 17, 2011 in Germany on DVD and Blu -Ray.
Criticism
" Well-known Hollywood stars come to an elaborately nested relationships and family drama set against the backdrop of an economic crisis that is particularly dramatic manifests itself in the small towns outside of population centers on the coasts. As a screenwriter, was the last work of who died in 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner and Hollywood veterans Horton Foote (, To Kill a Mockingbird '), which might be one reason why people like Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn and Orlando Bloom not allowed to ask long to participate. "