State and Main

Laced with tart dialog, “State and Main” explores what happens when a cell-phone-wielding movie crew invades a quaint New England town whose residents are too ready to jettison its pastoral grace for showbiz glitz. Part Hollywood satire, part screw ball comedy, “State and Main” follows screenwriter Joe White, whose old-fashioned values are put to task when he is the only witness to a heart-throb movie star’s indiscretions with a local teenage girl . The movie’s smooth-talking director and aggressive producer pressure Joe to put aside his convictions for the sake of the film and his future writing career. Meanwhile, Joe falls for a local bookseller, who challenges him to stand up for the truth. Rounding out the cast are Sarah Jessica Parker as a sexy Hollywood actress who tempts Joe and Charles Durning and Patty Lupone as the town’s star-struck mayor and his wife.