With diorama staging and repetitive medium and long shots, stage director turned moviemaker John Doyle creates rigor mortis on film.
Main Street
An offer too good to be true... it just might be.
2010 · 1h 32m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
John Doyle
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Main Street
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- John Doyle Director
- Colin Firth as Gus Leroy
- Ellen Burstyn as Georgiana Carr
- Patricia Clarkson as Willa Jenkins
- Orlando Bloom as Harris Parker
- Amber Tamblyn as Mary Saunders
- Andrew McCarthy as Howard Mercer
- Margo Martindale as Myrtle Parker
- Victoria Clark as Miriam
- Isiah Whitlock Jr. as Mayor
- Tom Wopat Cast
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