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Head of State
Directed by
Chris Rock
PG-13
2003
1h 35m
Comedy
,
Drama
5.5
29%
46%
5.6
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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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Cast of Head of State
Chris Rock
Mays Gilliam / Director / Screenplay / Producer
Bernie Mac
Mitch Gilliam
Dylan Baker
Martin Geller
Nick Searcy
Brian Lewis
Lynn Whitfield
Debra Lassiter
Robin Givens
Kim
Tamala Jones
Lisa Clark
James Rebhorn
Senator Bill Arnot
Keith David
Bernard Cooper
Tracy Morgan
Meat Man
Stephanie March
Nikki
Robert Stanton
Advisor
Jude Ciccolella
Mr. Earl
Nate Dogg
Nate Dogg
Angie Mattson
Nate's Girl
Elizabeth J. Carlisle
Nate's Girl
Kirk Penberthy
Gaines
John Badila
General Olson James
Ed Wheeler
Mr. Hawkins
Jamil Shaw
Kid
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Head of State Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Chris Rock runs for president.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
But in his acting pursuits, Rock just doesn't do well. He's stiff and uncomfortable on camera, especially when it comes to romantic or emotional scenes.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A missed opportunity.
Nitrate Online
Nick Schager
[Rock] seems to think that expanding his critiques to feature-length form requires a cookie-cutter white southern governor as the enemy and lots of "bling bling" style as a positive counterpoint.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
It's pretty much a toothless dog.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
The satirical parts are sharp and funny while the broad comedy is banal and not funny. It makes for an insanely uneven movie.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
... I liked this premise in movies like Dave, or the Eddie Murphy movie The Distinguished Gentleman, where the unknown or the underdog becomes the candidate or even the president, but this is so poorly done.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Not the sharpest political humor I've ever heard, but it gets my vote for the stupidest fun I've had in a long time.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Though the comedy falls short of a debacle -- which is what such egocentric projects tend to be -- it isn't as sharp, fast or funny as Rock's stand-up routines.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
It's mostly just bland and occasionally embarrassing.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A pleasing and occasionally very funny movie that maintains a mild but consistent hold on its audience.
Newsday
John Anderson
[Rock] and Bernie Mac ... provide a furious combination of stylistically different but equally effective jabs at the status quo.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
It hits easy targets with broad swipes, and its simple message is the same as Disney kiddie fare: Be yourself.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Ascends to caustic comic outrage every so often and is dopily amusing the rest of the time.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Based on Rock's awkward performances, it's anybody's guess why DreamWorks thought the comic was remotely ready to step behind the camera.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
A political comedy that refuses to address a single real political topic.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Chris Rock was busy directing, producing, co-writing and starring in this light comedy. Given his hilarious stand-up routines, one wishes he had spent a little more time on the script.
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
Rock can't set up a decent-looking shot, and he doesn't care about niceties such as character development and all that narrative downtime in between jokes. But he nonetheless wrings biting humor from serious issues.
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