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Leo pens memoir -
2 May 2011
-Oscar winner Melissa Leo is penning her memoirs.-The Fighter star has struck a deal with publishers at Simon & Schuster. The autobiography will be available in 2013.- Simon & Schuster executive editor Priscilla Painton says, "Melissa has a moving and gutsy story to
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Bale & Leo missed each other's Oscars speeches -
1 March 2011
-Oscars protocol prevented The Fighter co-stars Christian Bale and Melissa Leo from catching each other's acceptance speeches on Sunday night (27Feb11) - both stars were locked out of the Kodak Theatre auditorium.-
-Bale was refused entry to the theatre as he returne
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Leo keeps Gandolfini's engagement ring -
27 October 2010
-Actress Melissa Leo kept her character's engagement ring from new movie Welcome To The Rileys because she quite liked the idea of playing James Gandolfini's wife.-
-The unwed Frozen River star admits she even wears the ring from time to time - because it brings back
Melissa Leo - what members say
review by A customer from UK
The Best TV Series ever !!!! 17 April 2005
review by SAI81 from Tonbridge
Frozen River 3 February 2009
review by RitchieReview from Glasgow
The Fighter Review 19 February 2011
Melissa Leo - filmography
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Mildred Pierce - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Brian F. O'Byrne, Melissa Leo
Director: Todd Haynes
Certificate: 
Glendale, California, 1931: Mildred Pierce, a young mother with a talent for baking, is left a "grass widow" after throwing her husband, Bert, out of the house. Forced to hunt for work to support herself and her two young daughters, 11-year-old Veda and seven-year-old Ray, Mildred visits an ..read more »
 
71%
from 1,742 member
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Treme - Series 2
(4 discs)
(2011)
Starring: Rob Brown, Wendell Pierce, Kim Dickens
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson, Christine Moore, Daniel A
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Much of the creative team responsible for HBO's revered series THE WIRE reunite to present the captivating series TREME, set in New Orleans and following the musicians and citizens who still call the town home even in the brutal aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Like THE WIRE, this remarkable drama ..read more »
70%
from 41 members
Due for release on 28th May 2012
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Red State
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman
Director: Kevin Smith
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Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
56%
from 4,529 members
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Mildred Pierce - Blu-ray
(2 discs)
(2011)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Brian F. O'Byrne, Melissa Leo
Director: Todd Haynes
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MILDRED PIERCE (Kate Winslet) is a single mother during the great depression who has a passion for baking and decides to open her own restaurant after failing to find work elsewhere. After starting her own business, she meets a new man and tries to juggle both of these while fighting to gain love ..read more »
71%
from 575 members
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The Fighter
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams
Director: David O. Russell
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Drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.
76%
from 33,375 members
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The Dry Land
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Ryan O'Nan, America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama
Director: Ryan Piers Williams
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James returns from Iraq to face a new battle -- reintegrating into his small-town life in Texas. His wife, his mother, and his friend provide support, but they can't fully understand the pain he feels since his tour of duty ended. Lonely, James reconnects with an army buddy, but their reunion also ..read more »
40%
from 17 members
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Treme - Series 1
(4 discs)
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Michiel Huisman, India Ennenga, Wendell Pierce
Director: David Simon, Eric Overmyer
Certificate:
Much of the creative team responsible for HBO's revered series THE WIRE reunite to present the captivating series TREME, set in New Orleans and following the musicians and citizens who still call the town home even in the brutal aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Like THE WIRE, this remarkable drama ..read more »
73%
from 1,428 member
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Conviction
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis
Director: Tony Goldwyn
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A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.
71%
from 10,264 members
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Welcome to the Rileys
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo, Kristen Stewart
Director: Jake Scott
Certificate:
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Trauma transforms us. Years after their teenage daughter's death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. She isolates herself in their immaculate suburban home. He philanders with a local waitress, anesthetizing pain with easy passion. When he loses his ..read more »
61%
from 1,518 member
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The Space Between
(2010)
Starring: Phillip Rhys, AnnaSophia Robb, Melissa Leo
Director: Travis Fine
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A tragedy brings together two strangers in this independent drama from director Travis Fine. Montine McLeod (Melissa Leo) is a forty-something flight attendant who is increasingly unhappy with her life; her mother is in the latter stages of Alzheimer's Disease, her brother is a minister whose ..read more »
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Due for release on 3rd September 2012
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The Fighter - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams
Director: David O. Russell
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Drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.
77%
from 14,460 members
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Moment Of Truth
(2009)
Starring: Thomas Haden Church, Rachel Harker, Stephen Benson
Director: Jake Goldberger
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Don McKay, a high school janitor who leaves his hometown after a tragedy, returns 25 years later to rekindle a romance with his old flame, who is dying, but this homecoming brings McKay more than he bargained for.
65%
from 2 members
Due for release on 11th June 2012
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Frozen River
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Michael O'Keefe
Director: Courtney Hunt
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Frozen River is the story of Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new ..read more »
67%
from 6,649 members
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Lullaby
(2008)
Starring: Melissa Leo, Joey Dedio, Lisa Marie Schneider
Director: Darrell Roodt
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Stephanie (Melissa Leo) is a middle-aged woman living in Tennessee, where she waits tables to help her family make ends meet. Her son Steven (Renier Basson) has fallen in with a gang of ruthless drug dealers, and while she's still willing to do anything for her son, he often takes advantage of her ..read more »
43%
from 3 members
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The Cake Eaters
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Thomas Cavanagh, Bruce Dern
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Certificate:
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Two dysfunctional families are thrown together by the return of one family's prodigal son, forcing the clans' members to battle old ghosts and work through emotional issues as they search for love at any cost.
51%
from 1,004 member
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Black Irish
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Michael Angarano, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Guiry
Director: Brad Gann
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A gifted athlete (Michael Angarano) tries to rise above his family's problems in this drama about an Irish-Catholic family in South Boston. Brendan Gleeson and Tom Guiry co-star as the teen's troubled father and brother.
56%
from 190 members
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Stephanie Daley
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton
Director: Hilary Brougher
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When 16-year-old Stephanie Daley is accused of murdering her newborn, she claims she never knew she was pregnant and that the child was stillborn. A forensic psychologist, Lydie Crane, is hired to determine the truth behind Stephanie's continuing state of denial.
Lydie is pregnant herself and ..read more »
59%
from 190 members
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Carolina Skeletons
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Melissa Leo
Director: John Erman
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After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where years ago, his brother was exucuted for the murder of two white girls. He believes his brother was innocent and sets out to prove it. But there are some people in town who will stop at nothing to keep their ..read more »
58%
from 15 members
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Deadtime Stories
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Scott Valentine, Nicole Picard, Matt Mitler
Director: Jeffrey Delman
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A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories - about a killer witch, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and a story about "Goldi Lox" and the three bears.
39%
from 102 members
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Don McKay
Starring: Thomas Haden Church, Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo
Director: Jake Goldberger
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Twenty-five years after abandoning his hometown, Don McKay gets a letter from his ex-girlfriend Sonny saying that she is dying and wants him to come see her. When Don returns home, Sonny doesn't seem quite like he remembers her and everything seems a little bit off. In his darkly comic debut ..read more »
61%
from 7 members
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Melissa Leo facts
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Standout Charecters include Kyle Seccour as sensative newcomer Tim Bayliss, Melissa Leo as Kay Howard and Yaphet Kotto as inspiring half black/half Italian shift comm...
