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The United States of Leland has its moments, but they're undermined by a muddled plot, unsympathetic characters, and frustratingly uneven performances. Read critic reviews
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The United States of Leland videos
The United States of Leland: Official Clip - Getting Clean
The United States of Leland: Official Clip - Only Human
The United States of Leland: Official Clip - Something That Happened
The United States of Leland: Official Clip - None of Your Concern
The United States of Leland: Official Clip - All of Their Sadness
The United States of Leland: Official Clip - The Most Important Stuff
The United States of Leland: Official Clip - Earl the Pearl
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The United States of Leland: Official Clip - First Day of Class
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Movie Info
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky (Jena Malone). As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison (Don Cheadle), a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie (Michelle Williams), must contend with their own problems.
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Rating: R (Some Drug Content|Language)
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Matthew Ryan Hoge
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Producer: Bernie Morris, Jonah Smith, Kevin Spacey, Palmer West
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Writer: Matthew Ryan Hoge
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $343.8K
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Leland Productions Inc., MDP Worldwide
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Production Co: Trigger Street Productions, Thousand Words, MDP Worldwide
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Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby SRD
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Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)
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Critic Reviews for The United States of Leland
Audience Reviews for The United States of Leland
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Ryan Gosling, and Don Cheadle, are fantastic in this interesting take about a teenager who commits a murder, but can't recall the crime. Gosling's character, with his gentle demeanor, make it hard to grasp why he would do such a thing. Young Ryan's range of talent really shines here. He has such a way about his display of cool emotions that I find mesmerizing. Really well done film...
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Leland is a straightforward drama, putting all the cards on the table and allowing you to see the aftermath of unexplainable death in its truest form. http://proofinpicture.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/united-states-of-leland/
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Not as good as I was expecting.So disappointing
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A young man named Leland sees the world in a whole different perspective then the those around him. We watch and learn from his time in a juvenile detention center as a teacher questions him about Why he did what he did to end up there in the first place. Ryan Gosling is an actor who I really admire and adore, because I think he's brilliant. He is joined by talents such as Kevin Spacey, Lena Olin and Din Cheadle. A very introuging cast for an equally introuging story. It is abit strange, very sad and it makes you think. It's jumps from person to person and I found it hard to understand what the different "mini-stories" had to do with anything at some times, but of course it all rounds up in the end. I liked it. At times the story didn't really manage to keep my attention but it was good most of the time. It's a very sad story, the character Leland is a very complicated one and I think Gosling plays him very well. I found it hard to grasp the actual concept of the film, maybe watching it a second time might help? You have to be utterly concntrated on the film to really grasp everything and I sadly was not while I watched it so a re-watch is definitley something that's needed. Good interesting film with a good cast.
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