Several residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown. In the midst of today's challenging times, each of the colorful citizens of this close-knit North Carolina community, will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood. Watch Main Street Movie Online
A small North Carolina town is on the brink of desertion. The young are desperate to leave, and the old can’t remember why they stayed. When a man arrives promising prosperity for dried up Durham, a few residents begin to reevaluate their place in the community.Main Street starts with a simple story and lets the characters develop around it. The action moves back and forth between several plot points, keeping your attention as events unfold. At 90 minutes, you get just enough story without being worn out.The problem with Main Street is its inconsistency. Sometimes the script was so conversational I couldn’t help but believe the reality of the story. In other cases, the actor’s lines had no flow.
Main Street had wonderful lead characters. Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn and a majority of the prominent female characters couldn’t have been better. I felt what they felt and saw Durham through their eyes. Orlando Bloom and Andrew McCarthy acted equally well in their scenes while Colin Firth, on the other hand, never nailed his supposed Texas accent. It wasn’t his best performance, and for that I was greatly disappointed; however, the cast came together nicely to allow us all to quickly forget this minor casting flaw.Unfortunately, all of the film’s minor characters served only superficial purposes. Most often they were there to explain a scene in the film, either by way of their own lines or from a main character saying something to them. This made it seem like the film didn’t trust its audience to catch onto key elements of the plot. For those of us who could piece together the story alone, this was nothing more than an unpleasant distraction.
Even with its flaws, Main Street had heart. This was the last film written by two-time Academy Award winner Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies, The Trip to Bountiful) and thus the film meant a lot to those involved. With its historic cinematic significance Main Street deserves a certain degree of credit. It was a pleasant experience, though it does leave much to be desired. A little more than a year ago, there was a motion picture production in downtown Durham. Called Main Street, the film starred Colin Firth, Patricia Clarkson, Ellen Burstyn, Orlando Bloom and Amber Tamblyn. Watch Main Street Movie Online
But really, its strongest claim to being taken seriously was that the author of the screenplay was Horton Foote.Foote, who died in March 2009, is a big deal this year on Broadway as his Orphans' Home Cycle had a triumphant limited run during the winter, prompting plans for its transfer to Broadway in the fall.
Still, that hasn't been enough to get much attention for Main Street, which appeared at Cannes last week, according to a couple of online sites. Main Street isn't listed on the Cannes website (and if you Google "main street" and "Cannes," you'll get nothing but hits for Stones in Exile, the documentary about the Rolling Stones 1972 album, Exile on Main St.). Instead, the film played at the market at Cannes, where hundreds of producers set up wildcat screenings in hopes of finding distribution for their films.
It's worth looking at the blog post written by one Jordan Overstreet and reposted on an Orlando Bloom fan site. The review recaps the story start to finish. Although there's a bit of a howler right at the top as Overstreet mistakenly writes that Foote based his script on Sinclair Lewis' novel Main Street, what follows is fairly exhaustive, and she seems to be well-versed in film language (like "B-story") and is comfortable criticizing Foote and John Doyle, the film's director, for some of their narrative decisions. To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
A small North Carolina town is on the brink of desertion. The young are desperate to leave, and the old can’t remember why they stayed. When a man arrives promising prosperity for dried up Durham, a few residents begin to reevaluate their place in the community.Main Street starts with a simple story and lets the characters develop around it. The action moves back and forth between several plot points, keeping your attention as events unfold. At 90 minutes, you get just enough story without being worn out.The problem with Main Street is its inconsistency. Sometimes the script was so conversational I couldn’t help but believe the reality of the story. In other cases, the actor’s lines had no flow.
Main Street had wonderful lead characters. Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn and a majority of the prominent female characters couldn’t have been better. I felt what they felt and saw Durham through their eyes. Orlando Bloom and Andrew McCarthy acted equally well in their scenes while Colin Firth, on the other hand, never nailed his supposed Texas accent. It wasn’t his best performance, and for that I was greatly disappointed; however, the cast came together nicely to allow us all to quickly forget this minor casting flaw.Unfortunately, all of the film’s minor characters served only superficial purposes. Most often they were there to explain a scene in the film, either by way of their own lines or from a main character saying something to them. This made it seem like the film didn’t trust its audience to catch onto key elements of the plot. For those of us who could piece together the story alone, this was nothing more than an unpleasant distraction.
Even with its flaws, Main Street had heart. This was the last film written by two-time Academy Award winner Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies, The Trip to Bountiful) and thus the film meant a lot to those involved. With its historic cinematic significance Main Street deserves a certain degree of credit. It was a pleasant experience, though it does leave much to be desired. A little more than a year ago, there was a motion picture production in downtown Durham. Called Main Street, the film starred Colin Firth, Patricia Clarkson, Ellen Burstyn, Orlando Bloom and Amber Tamblyn. Watch Main Street Movie Online
But really, its strongest claim to being taken seriously was that the author of the screenplay was Horton Foote.Foote, who died in March 2009, is a big deal this year on Broadway as his Orphans' Home Cycle had a triumphant limited run during the winter, prompting plans for its transfer to Broadway in the fall.
Still, that hasn't been enough to get much attention for Main Street, which appeared at Cannes last week, according to a couple of online sites. Main Street isn't listed on the Cannes website (and if you Google "main street" and "Cannes," you'll get nothing but hits for Stones in Exile, the documentary about the Rolling Stones 1972 album, Exile on Main St.). Instead, the film played at the market at Cannes, where hundreds of producers set up wildcat screenings in hopes of finding distribution for their films.
It's worth looking at the blog post written by one Jordan Overstreet and reposted on an Orlando Bloom fan site. The review recaps the story start to finish. Although there's a bit of a howler right at the top as Overstreet mistakenly writes that Foote based his script on Sinclair Lewis' novel Main Street, what follows is fairly exhaustive, and she seems to be well-versed in film language (like "B-story") and is comfortable criticizing Foote and John Doyle, the film's director, for some of their narrative decisions. To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
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