Head of State (2003)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.1/10   

Director:

Chris Rock

Escritores (WGA):

Chris Rock (written by) &
Ali LeRoi (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

28 marzo 2003 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

The only thing white is the house.

Plot:

When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam (Rock) as his replacement .

Plot Keywords:

Party | Washington D.C. | Alderman | President | Corruption

Premios:

9 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Head of State: 6/10

Reparto

Chris Rock	...	Mays Gilliam
Bernie Mac	...	Mitch Gilliam
Dylan Baker	...	Martin Geller
Nick Searcy	...	Brian Lewis
Lynn Whitfield	...	Debra Lassiter
Robin Givens	...	Kim
Tamala Jones	...	Lisa Clark
James Rebhorn	...	Sen. Bill Arnot
Keith David	...	Bernard Cooper
Tracy Morgan	...	Meat Man
Stephanie March	...	Nikki
Robert Stanton	...	Advisor
Jude Ciccolella	...	Mr. Earl
Nate Dogg	...	Himself
Angie Mattson	...	Nate's girl

También conocida como:

De incompetente a presidente (Head of state) (Spain) [es]
Jefe de estado (Argentina) (video title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language, some sexuality and drug references.

Duración:

95 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Finland:K-7 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Germany:6 | Ireland:15 | Norway:11 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39659)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Annapolis, Maryland, USA

Compañía:

DreamWorks SKG

Trivialidades:

Rock got the idea for this story from the 1984 Geraldine Ferraro/Walter Mondale ticket, in which the democrats thought that since they had no chance of winning against Bush/Reagan, they might as well make a historic first so they can win support for the next election. So they ran Ferraro as the first ever woman vice president (they eventually lost).

Errores:

Continuidad: During the wrestling match, several people in the background are seen holding campaign posters depicting Mays and his brother as running together. At this point in the film, his brother had not been announced as his running mate.

Citas:

Mays Gilliam: I asked my niece the other day what 4 plus 4 was. She said 44.
Crowd Member: It is!

Conexiones de Película:

References Malcolm X (1992)

Banda de Sonido:

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Head of State: 6/10

I don't really like Chris Rock. I don't really like stand up comedians, and I thought Bad Company was pretty bad, so I wasn't first in line to see Head of State. I did see about 10 minutes of it in theaters (I walked into it after The Core-don't tell anyone), and I thought it was ok, nothing more. And that's what it basically is.

Rock plays Alderman Mays Gilliam, for whom nothing seems to go right. After the Democratic nominee for the upcoming presidental election dies, the Democratic party is looking for just a regular person, because they know they can't win. Who else would they pick except for Mays? And what seems to be a hopeless race turns around becuase Mays knows what it's like to be a normal person in America. Of course, incumbent Brian Lewis (Nick Searcy) starts a smear campaign. Soon Mays's credibility is out the window. What is he to do?

All of the humor in Head of State really came and went. For many times, there were fifteen minute stretches of laughless space. And even in between those stretches, it wasn't that funny. There were a couple places that were hilarious, but only a few of them, so I won't spoil them. Thankfully, a lot of the humor wasn't all that racist, although some was just white people acting like black people, or misinterpreting slang. Some of it, though, was smart political humor, and I'm thankful that it had some merit to it, and was just not another movie like Bringing Down the House, where, although it was funny, all of the humor was dirty and racist.

Along the way of the campaign, Mays realizes that he needs a vice president. So who else does he choose but his brother (Bernie Mac)? Although heavily advertised for Mac, he's not in it much, and he isn't really that funny. He's a mediocre comedian, making a mediocre turn in a mediocre movie.

My rating: 6/10

Rated PG-13 for language, some sexuality and drug references.