Movie : Main Street
Release Date : September 9, 2011
Studio : Magnolia Pictures
Director : John Doyle
Screenwriter : Horton Foote
Starring : Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn, Orlando Bloom
Genre : Drama
Official Website : MainStreetthemovie.com
IMDB Rating : 4.8
Story : A stranger arrives and rents himself a huge warehouse. Pays in cash. Has a couple of Mexicans in tow. Tells them to pretend they don't speak English, and to leave all the talking to him.
So begins Main Street, a gentle, drifting meditation upon times that are changing, and people that would rather not change at all.
The film is based on the last script penned by the celebrated American screenwriter Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies), who downed tools on this low-key drama shortly before his death in 2008 at age 92.
Though Main Street will never be remembered alongside Foote's best-known works, there is a weary, worldly wisdom threaded through the film that is well worth picking up on.
Colin Firth plays the mystery man of the piece, a sharp'n'shifty type who thinks he has an offer the local chamber of commerce surely cannot refuse. So what if he wants to fill Durham's vacant space with nuclear waste?
As the film nudges forward, first-time filmmaker John Doyle gives over plenty of screen time to capturing the ripple effect of the town's ethical conundrum.
Ellen Burstyn (playing an elderly lifelong resident of Durham) and Patricia Clarkson (as her niece) are to the fore as conflicting feelings are worked through.
While Main Street does have its merits, the production (which ironically experienced its own share of financial hardships before and after shooting) feels ever so slightly unfinished. Clunky editing and a few characters surplus to requirements (hello, Orlando Bloom!) do not assist in this regard.
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