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Genres:
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Comedy
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Director:
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Chris Rock
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Actors:
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Jude Ciccolella,
Tamala Jones,
Nate Dogg,
Angie Mattson,
Chris Rock,
Bernie Mac,
Dylan Baker,
Nick Searcy,
Lynn Whitfield,
Robin Givens,
James Rebhorn,
Keith David,
Tracy Morgan,
Stephanie March,
Robert Stanton
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(5.1/10)82
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Plot Summary:
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Mays Gilliam (Chris Rock) is a Washington D.C. neighborhood alderman, who's about to be red-lined out of his task. But after the untimely death of the ally frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from namelessness and prod into the limelight as his carouse's nominee - in the course of President of the United States.
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Not So Bad
I was a bit apprehensive when I sat down to watch this movie, thinking that it would be one of those movies which will disappoint in the end. And certainly, the storyline is very simple and somewhat nonsensical. But Chris Rock pulls it off.
Rock plays Mays Gilliam, a lowly black politician who is chosen to run in the Presidential campaign as a ploy to make the party lose deliberately. Gilliam, however, grows in the role as a Presidential candidate, and together with his running mate (Bernie Mac), pulls of the greatest election upset of all time.
It's all very predictable, but the movie is littered with several hilarious, spoof-like, moments, and it is in this environment where Rock and Mac excel.
Head of State
If Chris Rock ever hires an ace director and screenwriter to shepherd him on his quest toward comedic immortality, he will be a force to reckon with. Until then, though, he's a would-be auteur hoisted on the petard of either aesthetic indifference or sheer inability. No matter how sharp his tongue and honed his delivery, the comic makes for one grievously bad director and almost as regrettable a leading man. His new film, Head of State, often rocks as hard as its star-director, but as a movie it's the wrong kind of joke.
Not that the guy isn't funny, sometimes outrageously so. In his latest collaboration with writer Ali LeRoi (the pair wrote the most recent iteration of Heaven Can Wait), Rock plays a Washington alderman, Mays Gilliam, who's committed to doing the rig...
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