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- "Head of State" is an imperfect movie, but not a boring one and not lacking in intelligence. What it does wrong is hard to miss, but what it does right is hard to find: it makes an angry and fairly timely comic attack on an electoral system where candidates don't say what they really think but simply repeat safe centrist banalities.
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Mar 28, 2003 · Mays bumbles through the first weeks of his campaign, following the instructions of his profoundly conventional campaign advisers, Geller and Debra Lassiter ( Lynn Whitfield) until his brother, a Chicago bail bondsman named Mitch ( Bernie Mac ), asks him when he's going to start speaking his mind.
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Mar 28, 2003 · A low-level Washington, D.C., public servant, Mays Gilliam (Chris Rock), is thrust into the national spotlight when he's asked by Martin Geller (Dylan Baker), the head of the Democratic...
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Head of State is a 2003 American political comedy film directed, written by, produced 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.
Mar 28, 2003 · Head of State: Directed by Chris Rock. With Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Dylan Baker, Nick Searcy. When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington, D.C. alderman Mays Gilliam is unexpectedly picked as his replacement.
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Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, is about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee--for President of the United States.
Mar 23, 2003 · Rock stars as Mays Gilliam, an alderman from an impoverished Washington, D.C., neighborhood, who suddenly finds himself his party’s choice for its 2004 presidential nomination when the prior ...
Directed by Chris Rock. The only thing white is the house. When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman as his replacement. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
