The 51st State 2001
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Genre:Action ,Comedy,Crime
Release: 7 December 2001 (UK)
Director: Ronny Yu
Stars:Samuel L. Jackson|Robert Carlyle|Emily Mortimer Writer:Stel Pavlou, Songmaker:Dolby Digital,SDDS,DTS IMDB | Views: 1266 |
The 51st State Complete info
Genre :Action|Comedy|Crime
Title :The 51st State
Year :2001
Rating :6.3
Duration :93 min
Release :7 December 2001 (UK)
Star:Samuel L. Jackson,Robert Carlyle,Emily Mortimer,Emily Mortimer,Meat Loaf,Jake Abraham,Mac McDonald,Aaron Swartz,David Webber,Michael J. Reynolds
Director :Ronny Yu
Writer:Stel Pavlou |
Country:UK
Language:English
Moviescore:23/100
Movie Location:Filming Locations: 1302 Palmetto St, Los Angeles, California, USA See more ¯
Picture Rating:MPAA
Movie Budget:Budget: $28,000,000 (estimated)
Movie Gross:Gross: $57,988 (South Africa) (31 January 2003)
Movie Company:Alliance Atlantis Communications | Alliance Atlantis Communications | Fifty First Films
Movie Sound : Dolby Digital,SDDS,DTS
The 51st State Tagline : Taglines: Have a Nice Trip See more ¯
The 51st State Description
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
The 51st State Plot
Plot Keywords: chemist | liverpool | drugs | leather pants | white panties | See All (92) ¯
The 51st State Synopsis
Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses. Written by Anonymous
The 51st State Critics
An American whiz master chemist Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson , also co-executive producer and he brought in HK's Ronny Yu to direct) plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal . As he develops the ultimate and revolutionary pharmaceutical narcotic , then double-crosses his L.A. boss connection nicknamed Lizard (Meat Loaf) to sell it to a Scouse kingpin (Tomlinson) and later on , Lizard seeks vengeance . All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit . The Californian pharmaceutist flees to Liverpool to make a more lucrative business there , dealing with a local mafioso called Felix (Robert Carlyle) and his hoodlum (Paul Barber ; this is the second film and 'Robert Carlyle' and 'Paul Barber' have done together , the first was Full Monty ,1997). Meanwhile , a gun-toting motorcycle-riding hit woman pursues to kill him and she happens to be Felix's ex . This exciting as well as wild picture is loaded with noisy action , irony , slapdash , comedy with tongue-in-cheek , bad taste jokes , rapid flash thrilling choreography , funny situations and with a distinctly British sense of humor . "The 51 State", is a savage hybrid among the best " Quentin Tarantino", ?Brothers Cohen : Joel and Ethan? and ?Guy Ritchie? , topped with a little bit of original touches here and there ; including a due homage to Liverpool FC . It turns out to be pleasantly fun that offers no intellectual stimulus whatsoever ; an exercise in pure action cinema in which entertainment and bemusement are guaranteed . The scrip written by Stel Pavlou not reinvents nothing, it is a blending of previous films , writing an enjoyable Popurr¡ , though it is where lies his greatness . Writer Stel Pavlou was working as an assistant in a liquor store when he penned his screenplay ; it was sent on spec to Tim Roth as Pavlou knew that Roth insisted on reading all independent scripts sent his way. The motion picture was compellingly directed by Ronny Yu , though Tim Roth originally planned for this to be his directorial debut and Uli Edel was originally set to direct . Yu began to direct The Servant , the film became the No.1 box office hit for the summer, and Yu's future seemed destined to be in film after all. Throughout the 1980s Yu directed and produced many other box office hits in Hong Kong . In 1986 , he directed Brandon Lee , Bruce Lee's son , in Legacy of Rage . In 1993, the successful as well as romantic swordplay epic The bride with the white hair (1993) . Bride was a huge summer hit in Hong Kong, and also became an art house theater favorite in the U.S. and Europe . In 1995 came the equally ravishing The Phantom Lover(1995), a love story inspired by the original novel of The Phantom of the Opera . Following these nice films, Yu launched his Hollywood career . As he went on to direct Warriors of virtue and The 51st State or Formula 51 . His best picture and the most acclaimed results to be Fearless with Jet Li . His flair for visually rich narration appealed immediately to broader Western audiences and has been associated mostly with the terror film genre, as he has revived three franchises with The bride of Chucky (1998), adding some hilarious touches ; then Freddy versus Jason (2003), of the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises, respectively, where its box office total is more than the two franchises'combined earnings .
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