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State and Main (2000) More at IMDbPro »

• The Waterford Huskies logo is a replica of the University of Connecticut Huskies logo.
  
  
• In one scene, a character makes reference to SquiggleVision, which was an animation style used in the show, "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist" (1995), which was created by State and Main co-star, Jonathan Katz.
  
  
• David Paymer, as producer Marty Rossen speaks a line of dialogue that is a direct homage to his work in "The Larry Sanders Show" (1992) playing the overly enthusiastic PR flack Norman Litkey when he says, "I'm wetting myself."
  
  
• The movie, set in Vermont, was shot primarily in a seaside town in Massachusetts.
  
  
• The reason for the Crazy Credit "A complete list of associate producers is available on request" is that, throughout the film, anyone who could help make the film-within-the-film was given an associate producer credit.
  
  
• In the movie, the fictional internet company that wants to advertise in the movie-within-a-movie is Bazoomer.com. To this day, if you go to www.bazoomer.com, you will see a white page with the phrase "Go You Huskies". This is a reference to a line said by several townspeople throughout the movie.
  
  
• The plot summary on the back of the play Joe has written reads: "Daniel Dan, a young electrician traveling in North Dakota, has his shoes shined by a veteran of World War II, also named Daniel Dan. The two strike up a quick friendship and decide that fate has brought them together. Tragically, Daniel (the veteran) is electrocuted when Daniel (the electrician) asks him to be his helper on a small residential rewiring. The guilt that Daniel feels over his mistake haunts him for the rest of his life. Adding insult to injury, the rewiring customer never made his final payment due to financial difficulties totally unrelated."
  
  
• This is the second movie in which Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a character that uses his poor eyesight in order to avoid having to identify a person. The first is Scent of a Woman (1992).
  
  

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