One candidate for the presidency dies in an accident a couple of weeks before the election. Meanwhile the alderman Mays Gilliam becomes a hero when he rescues a woman and her cat from an old house that would blow up. However his fiancee Kim does not pay his bills and dumps him, and Gilliam loses everything including his fancy car. When Senator Bill Arnot sees the news on television, he plots a scheme with the party advisors Martin Geller and Debra Lassiter to invite Mays to b... (Full plot summary below)
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One candidate for the presidency dies in an accident a couple of weeks before the election. Meanwhile the alderman Mays Gilliam becomes a hero when he rescues a woman and her cat from an old house that would blow up. However his fiancee Kim does not pay his bills and dumps him, and Gilliam loses everything including his fancy car. When Senator Bill Arnot sees the news on television, he plots a scheme with the party advisors Martin Geller and Debra Lassiter to invite Mays to be the party nominee and lose the election for the other candidate, Vice-President Brian Lewis. Four years later, he would be the candidate and would have the chance of winning the election. Mays has a terrible beginning of campaign but when his older brother Mitch Gilliam meets him in Chicago, he advises Mays to be himself. Will he have the chance to be the first African American President of the USA?
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| Journal News (Westchester, NY)Marshall FineComes closer to capturing Chris Rock's stand-up persona than anything else he's done so far. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovIrritating where it should be insightful and cheap where it should be incisive. |
| Hollywood.comKit BowenWith Head of State, Chris Rock and Bernie Mac give audiences a much-needed excuse to poke fun at--but also admire--the way U.S. democracy is supposed to work. |
| Dallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonChris Rock gets to direct himself, and as a result is finally starring in a laugh-out-loud funny movie. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenEntertaining, but bland at a time that biting satire is called for. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumRock and Mac exult in the kind of highly charged verbal and physical antics that are star-turn rewards for performers currently at the tops of their games. |
| Dallas Morning NewsTom MaurstadThe low points are dull, cliché-bound, even amateurish. But the high points are razor-sharp and fearlessly funny -- a hip-hop feel with a punk edge. |
| Supercala.comJohn VenableHead of State is funny, not consistently funny, but VERY, VERY funny in places. |
| NY RockSpyder DarlingA mostly likable and entertaining political spoof, albeit more slapstick than savvy. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAn imperfect movie, but not a boring one and not lacking in intelligence. |
