Main Street (2010)
An offer too good to be true... it just might be.
From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus Leroy brings something new and potentially dangerous into their quiet town.
- Date of release
- 2010-10-21
- TMDB
- 4.6 / 10 (79)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- John Doyle
Casting
- Colin Firth — Gus Leroy
- Ellen Burstyn — Georgiana Carr
- Patricia Clarkson — Willa Jenkins
- Orlando Bloom — Harris Parker
- Amber Tamblyn — Mary Saunders
- Andrew McCarthy — Howard Mercer
- Margo Martindale — Myrtle Parker
- Victoria Clark — Miriam
- Isiah Whitlock Jr. — Mayor
- Tom Wopat — Frank
- Viktor Hernandez — Estaquio
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: North Carolina
Main Street is a 2010 American drama film about several residents of Durham, North Carolina, a city in the Southern U.S., whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown.
Production
The film was shot nearly entirely in Durham, North Carolina in April and May 2009. The screenplay was written by Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Horton Foote after he found downtown Durham empty on a weekend visit several years earlier.
Myriad Pictures bought the international distribution rights in May 2009. The film was promoted at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival by its producers and stars.
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