The 51st State

The 51st State (2001)

Timing: 1:33 (93 min)

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Release date

2001-12-07

Country

Canada, United Kingdom

Production

Alliance Atlantis, Artists Production Group (APG), National Lottery, Film Council, The Film Consortium, Fifty First Films

Genre

Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime

Budget

$27 000 000

Revenue

$14 439 698

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Director

Ronny Yu

Actors

Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Meat Loaf, Rhys Ifans, Sean Pertwee, Ricky Tomlinson, Michael Starke, Anna Keaveney, Paul Barber
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Scenario

Producer

Malcolm Kohll, Seaton McLean, David Pupkewitz, Samuel L. Jackson

Operator

Poon Hang-Sang

Composer

Headrillaz

Artist

Audition

Nina Gold

Editing

David Wu
All team (21)

• The film was shot on location in Liverpool and Los Angeles.
• The film has two English titles – «Formula 51» and «The 51st State» – and both can be interpreted in two ways. On one hand, it refers to a new drug called ZSV-51, and on the other, to the setting – old England, which some Americans disparagingly refer to as the 51st state of the USA.
• The word 'fuck' and its derivatives appear 180 times in the film.
• The film has two English titles – 'Formula 51' and 'The 51st State' – and they can be interpreted in two ways. On the one hand, it refers to a new drug called ZSV-51, and on the other, to the location where the action takes place – old England, which some Americans disparagingly refer to as the 51st state of the USA.