This movie makes me physically ill when I watch it...one of mamet's actors once said that Mamet's dialogue is a style of its own but when you're acting it out well it doesn't seem like a style it seems real...well the dialogue sure as hell seems like a style in state and main, and a frustrating style at that...this movie feels like a bunch of people in the real world speaking a language that is annoying and doesn't exist, or maybe i just can't understand it....regardless, after this and 'heist' i think it is safe to say that ole Dave should stick to writing play which he is brillaint at (i.e. American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow.)....phillip seymour hoffman is the only saving grace in the film but he's pretty much brilliant in whatever he does.....don't waste your time with this one folks....it was filmed in my home town and i didn't even like it!!!!!