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2003 Certificate 15
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This is the story of a young man's experience in a juvenile detention center that touches on the tumultuous changes that befall his family and the community in which he lives. Read more

Starring Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone
Director Matthew Ryan Hoge
Genres Drama

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The United States Of Leland

This is the story of a young man's experience in a juvenile detention center that touches on the tumultuous changes that befall his family and the community in which he lives.

Starring Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Kevin Spacey, Michelle Williams, Martin Donavan, Sherilyn Fenn
Director Matthew Ryan Hoge
Studio MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 45 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 26 Dec 2005
Production year: 2003
Format DVD

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  • Burping up kindergarten koans and Gumpian gibberish like a precocious demon-tot who imagines himself to be the Dalai... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

  • Ryan Gosling confirms his extraordinary talent with his eloquent performance here

    • Movieline's Hollywood Life
    • Posted 08 Oct 2007

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  • 25 out of 34 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Disappointing

    This film has got a whole heap of amazing reviews on the Internet Movie Database website. So maybe it's just me, but I didn't like it much.

    The film centres around a disturbed young man who has murdered an austic child. Through flashbacks, the background events leading up to the murder are revealed. But it's hard going: almost every character in the film is flawed and so it's hard to have any empathy with any of them whatsoever. Thus I felt a great deal of detachment with the film. The pace is also ponderously slow for the first 50 minutes.

    The nature of disfunctionality within the American middle class has been much better served by films such as 'American Beauty'.

      • Kevan Brighting from Birmingham
      • Posted 10 Jan 2006 16:20

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Customer Review

    I won't bore you with the outline of the film and it's characters as the film description does that best. The basic moral questions and dilemnas that arise here force the viewer to examine their own lives as well as that of the characters. Like their interactions with others, their own thoughts and actions but in a deep and meaningful way. The fact that Leland kills a kid (and the why and who's to blame) is not the most important discovery here. It's more a study of the human mind (in each of the characters) and how it deals with pain and joy (among other emotions). How everything from experiences and influences to dealing with issues are taken into consideration and context here. How taking the time to step back from things and modern day life to see things as they really are can affect your mind and perspective in one way or another. It's a very clever, modern and necessary analysis of the mind, morals and the perceptions/judgements of others (incl Leland himself) on one person's, single moment of wrong doing. WATCH IT BY YOURSELF FIRST TO CONCENTRATE AND REFLECT ON EVERYTHING, THAT WAY YOU'LL FULLY APPRECIATE THE ANGLES AND VIEWPOINTS THAT THE FILM IS COMING FROM....and maybe be able to look at it through your own mind's eye too. DEEP STUFF I KNOW!

      • A customer from UK
      • Posted 23 Jun 2008 15:22

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