The 51st State (2001)

Director
Ronny Yu

Main cast
Samuel L. Jackson; Robert Carlyle; Nigel Whitmey; Emily Mortimer; Meat Loaf

Genres
Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime

Description
Elmo McElroy 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 and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.


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