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The United States of Leland
starring: Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin
directed by: Matthew Ryan Hoge

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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781415700174
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Surround Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 1415700176
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 07, 2004
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 10012
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2002

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
The United States of Leland isn't a whodunit. The opening scenes of Matthew Ryan Hoge's unusual murder mystery make it clear that Leland P. Fitzgerald (The Believer's Ryan Gosling) is the killer. But why did he kill? Now that the deed is done, Leland is staying in a detention center. Everybody, but especially new teacher Pearl Madison (Don Cheadle), wants to know why he killed the mentally challenged brother of girlfriend Becky (Jena Malone). After all, Leland seemed to genuinely like the kid. Leland is just as confused (and can't remember committing the act), but he reveals more and more clues as he gradually opens up to Pearl. His estranged novelist father Albert (Kevin Spacey), meanwhile, just wants to spin another bestseller out of his son's story. Writer-director Hoge doesn't provide any easy answers in this compelling, complicated look at teenage depression. Featuring music by the Fire Theft's Jeremy Enigk. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Ryan Gosling is turning out to be a very interesting fellow
Fantastic story rife with sadness, poignancy, and insights. It starts out with you knowing something bad took place and someone's been murdered. I assumed it was going to be some sort of a special case murder and it was. That is how the story begins layering. As you learn who got murdered, who he was attached to, how the murderer fit into the social network of the victim, and gain insights to the murderers background and method of thinking, you become more vested with the film. When the end is reached, ... Read More

Rating:

- My 2nd Favorite Movie
I bought this off amazon a few months ago. I saw it before I bought it. It's amazing. It's a little bit sad,depressing, and dark but it's a great movie and gives you a different taste than hollywood has to offer.

Rating:

- Entertaining, but meaning unclear
I'm not sure if this was a great movie or not, but I'll say this for it: it certainly held my interest while I was watching it.

There are a lot of wheels spinning in this story at once. There's Leland, the mild mannered 16 year old boy who is in jail for killing a mentally impaired child, there is his teacher, an aspiring writer who thinks that writing a book about Leland might be his big break, there is his father, a famous novelist who hasn't seen his son in years, there is his former girlfriend, ... Read More

Rating:

- Tries, doesn't quite get there.
The United States of Leland (Matthew Ryan Hoge, 2003)

Now, this is the kind of mystery I'm usually fond of; we open with the crime itself, out of context, inexplicable: Leland P. Fitzgerald (The Believer's Ryan Gosling) kills Ryan Pollard (Michael Welch, soon to be seen in the upcoming Day of the Dead remake). Other than that, we know nothing, and the real mystery of the movie is not what happened, but why. In charge of figuring that out is Pearl (Hotel Rwanda's Don Cheadle), a teacher in the juvenile ... Read More

Rating:

- The "Whys" Of The World
Why do people do good and bad things? What purpose do they serve? The "why" question is pondered to a fatalistic ending in THE UNITED STATES OF LELAND, starring Ryan Gosling (HALF NELSON) as the emotionally detached Leland P. Fitzgerald.

Leland is introduced to us during a terrible scene in which a young retarded boy lay stabbed to death on a grassy playground. It appears that Leland has had some sort of mental breakdown, as he stabbed the boy and then himself, "just to see what it felt like." But as the ... Read More

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