The 51st State
Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.
Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime
Film Council, Alliance Atlantis Communications, The Film Consortium, Focus Films, Momentum Films, National Lottery, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Artists Production Group (APG), Fifty First Films
Samuel L. Jackson as Elmo McElroy, Robert Carlyle as Felix DeSouza, Emily Mortimer as Dakota Parker, Meat Loaf as The Lizard, Rhys Ifans as Iki, Sean Pertwee as Detective Virgil Kane, Ricky Tomlinson as Leopold Durant, Michael Starke as Arthur, Anna Keaveney as Shirley DeSouza, Paul Barber as Frederick, Stephen Walters as Blowfish, Nigel Whitmey as L.A. Highway Patrol, Mac McDonald as Mr. Davidson, Michael J. Reynolds as Mr. Escobar, Junix Inocian as Mr. Ho-Fat, Jake Abraham as Konokko, Aaron Swartz as Mr. Yuri, David Webber as Mr. Jones, Nick Bartlett as Trevor, Angus MacInnes as Pudsey Smith, Robert Fyfe as Hector Dougal McElroy, Robert Jezek as Priest, Joan Campion as Hotel Maid, Terry O'Neill as Deckhand, Marc Anwar as Pharmacist, Paul Broughton as Anfield Commissionaire