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The United States Of Leland
2003
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 |
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| 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 |
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| Director | Matthew Ryan Hoge |
| Studio | MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 45 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 26 Dec 2005 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (4)
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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
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Ryan Gosling confirms his extraordinary talent with his eloquent performance here
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25 out of 34 people found this review helpful
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'. -
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10 out of 11 people found this review helpful
A movie that makes you think.....
I cannot say enough good things about this movie. Beautifully cast, as usual Ryan delivers A+ work.Not the sort of movie that would be enjoyed by people who have a closed mind to how they view life. But I thought it was evocative and quite moving:there are not alot of films out there that leave me wondering after watching ....
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