THE 51ST STATE
by Ronny Yu
synopsis
Set in Liverpool, The 51st State is the story of Elmo McElroy, a streetwise American master chemist, who heads to England to set up his last big deal - to introduce a new designer drug to the European market.
| international title: | THE 51st STATE |
| original title: | THE 51st STATE |
| country: | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| sales agent: | Momentum Pictures |
| year: | 2002 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Ronny Yu |
| film run: | 92' |
| release date: | BE 11/09/2002, LU 05/09/2002, PT 09/08/2002, NL 25/07/2002, FR 10/07/2002, SE 26/04/2002, NO 19/04/2002, DK 19/04/2002, IS 05/04/2002, UK 07/12/2001, CH 13/03/2003 |
| screenplay: | Stel Pavlou |
| cast: | Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Sean Pertwee, Rhys Ifans |
| cinematography by: | Poon Hang-Sang |
| film editing: | David Wu |
| art director: | Alan Macdonald, Philip Robinson |
| costumes designer: | Kate Carin |
| music: | Headrillaz |
| producer: | Jonathan Debin, Malcolm Kohll, Seaton McLean, David Pupkewitz, Samuel L. Jackson |
| production: | Focus Films, The Film Consortium, Alliance Atlantis (CA), Artists Production Group (US) |
| distributor: | Momentum Pictures, Rainbow (CH), Les Films de L'Elysee (BE), Les Films de L'Elysee (LU), Metropolitan FilmExport (FR), Egmont Entertainement (SE), Egmont Entertainement (DK) |
