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Main Street (2010 film)

Main Street is a 2010 American drama film about several residents of Durham, North Carolina, a city in the Southern U.S., whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown.

Main Street

Adi Shankar
Megan Ellison
Jonah Hirsch
Spencer Silna

1984 Films

  • October 21, 2010 (2010-10-21) (Austin Film Festival)
  • September 9, 2011 (2011-09-09) (United States)

United States

English

$2,560[3]

Plot[edit]

Each of the colorful citizens of a close-knit North Carolina community—from a once-wealthy tobacco heiress to the city's mayor to a local police officer—will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood.[1][4]

as Gus Leroy

Colin Firth

as Georgiana Carr

Ellen Burstyn

as Willa Jenkins

Patricia Clarkson

as Harris Parker

Orlando Bloom

as Mary Saunders

Amber Tamblyn

as Myrtle Parker

Margo Martindale

as Howard Mercer

Andrew McCarthy

as Miriam

Victoria Clark

as Mayor

Isiah Whitlock Jr.

as Frank

Tom Wopat

Viktor Hernandez as Estaquio

Juan Piedrahita as Jose (as Juan Carlos Piedrahita)

Thomas Upchurch as Trooper Williams

Dennis Regling as Robert Dunning

Reid Dalton as Crosby Gage

Amy da Luz as Rita

Reception[edit]

Reception for the film has been generally negative. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 14% approval rating based on reviews from seven critics, with an average score of 4.7/10.[9]


Blog Critics reviewed the film, saying, "Everything that occurs in the film feels shallow somehow, and it’s a shame because Main Street had all of the basic elements that would have made it truly, a great film."[10]

Official website

at IMDb

Main Street

at Rotten Tomatoes

Main Street