The 51st State (Formula 51)

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Directed by

Ronny Yu

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Samuel L. Jackson
Elmo McElroy

Emily Mortimer
Dakota Parker

Meat Loaf
The Lizard

Jake Abraham
Konokko

Mac McDonald
Mr. Davidson

David Webber
Mr. Jones

Michael J. Reynolds
Mr. Escobar

Barbara Barnes
Boy's Mother

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Stel Pavlou
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12 years, 8 months ago at May 11 17:04

TrekMedic

Kind of a mixed up movie (then again, half of Samuel Jackson's movies are,...) but there's a lot of anti-American sentiment that most of us Yanks would miss, as well as the British in-jokes. It'll get lumped in as a second cousin to the Lock, Stock and Layer Cake genre.

An average movie

11 years, 5 months ago at Aug 14 15:18

johanlefourbe

If I recall it correctly, I ended up watching this flick because one of my colleagues had the DVD. Personally, like the most of us, I have a huge weak spot for Samuel L. Jackson. Indeed, the man is some kind of workaholic, making sometimes 5 movies a year, and you’ll never know what you’ll get with him, a blockbuster like ‘The Avengers’ or something more obscure like this movie for example... read more

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Elmo McElroy (Jackson) 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 (Carlyle) and his ex-girlfriend (Mortimer) and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.

Release date: 18 October 2002
UPC: 043396080300

Tags: Action (14), Crime (12), Comedy (11), 2001 (7), Drugs (6), UK (5), Thriller (4), English (4), Gangster (4), Liverpool (4), Kilt (4), Soccer (3), Canada (3), Chemistry (3), 2002 (2), 2000s (2), Shot In The Back (2), Formula Movie (2), Pill (2), House Music (2)

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