Taglines: The only thing white is the house.
Head of State movie storyline. One candidate for the presidency dies in an accident a couple of weeks before the election. Meanwhile the alderman Mays Gilliam becomes a hero when he rescues a woman and her cat from an old house that would blow up. However his fiancee Kim does not pay his bills and dumps him, and Gilliam loses everything including his fancy car.
When Senator Bill Arnot sees the news on television, he plots a scheme with the party advisors Martin Geller and Debra Lassiter to invite Mays to be the party nominee and lose the election for the other candidate, Vice-President Brian Lewis. Four years later, he would be the candidate and would have the chance of winning the election. Mays has a terrible beginning of campaign but when his older brother Mitch Gilliam meets him in Chicago, he advises Mays to be himself. Will he have the chance to be the first African American President of the USA?
Head of State is a 2003 comedy film directed, written by, and starring Chris Rock and co-starring Bernie Mac. It marked the directorial debut of Rock, who had previously worked as a writer, producer and actor. The film’s title refers to one of the key functions of the President of the United States, as the American head of state. This was the last film by cinematographer Donald E. Thorin, who died in 2016, having not worked on a film in thirteen years.
Head of State (2003)
Directed by: Chris Rock
Starring: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield, Dylan Baker, Nick Searcy, Robin Givens, Tamala Jones, James Rebhorn, Keith David, Tracy Morgan, Stephanie March, Angie Mattson
Screenplay by: Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi
Production Design by: Steven J. Jordan
Cinematography by: Donald E. Thorin
Film Editing by: Stephen A. Rotter
Costume Design by: Amanda Sanders
Set Decoration by: Jay Klein
Art Direction by: Ray Kluga
Music by: DJ Quik, Marcus Miller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, some sexuality and drug references.
Distributed by: DreamWorks Pictures
Release Date: March 28, 2003
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