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DVD The United States of Leland
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
who says the characters have to be real? the entire movie was a hyperbole on the realities of any society showing how haunting society can be. how there are shades of gray in what's right and wrong. how the truth is life is full of injustices and pain but how you need to move on in order not to get wrapped up in it all. the acting was also great. i mean, it's not easy to play detachment with such feeling, as ironic as that sounds.
Excellent, except for Ryan Gosling
I really liked the whole story and cast with the huge exception of Ryan Gosling. This movie would have been so good had they cast someone else for the lead role. I can't pinpoint exactly what's wrong with his portrayal, but he does try way too hard, so that at the beginning I was wondering if the character was retarded or something, but it was just gosling's poor attempt to make him appear introverted and thoughtful.
Awesome.
Seriously, this is a great movie. It's not the best ever, but Don Cheadle delivers a great performance, per usual. The performances by the cast pull at the heartstrings.
While it may sound like some brutal warrior metaphor for life, this story of a high school boy facing up to the complexities of the adult world is a tender drama about troubled souls. Amiable, good-natured Roy (Ryan Gosling) keeps life at arm's length until renegade coach Gid (a paternal David Morse, who nurses his own emotional wounds) scouts him for a rural six-man football league--a rough, unforgiving game as much rugby as traditional gridiron action--and brings out his hibernating alpha-wolf. Roy also gets lessons in love from "older woman" Clea Duvall, but this is not your usual coming-of-age film. Set on the forever plain and under the magnificent sky of the Montana high desert, and photographed with the crispness of a winter morning, The Slaughter Rule offers an... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Alex Smith (II) - Andrew J. Smith DVD Release Date: Released the 18 February 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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This movie was incredible, the most interesting and well-acted presentation of neo-nazism and post-WWII judaism that I have seen. I was a little surprised that some reviewers mentioned American History X. The two films have little in common, other than the politics of their protraginists. Though American History X was enjoyable, it was not the powerful film (despite the infamous curbing scene) that The Believer is.
Inspired by a true story, Ryan Gosling plays Daniel, a self-hating Jew who denies his heritage and joins up with an American fascist, neo-nazi movement. One reviewer has said that his self-loathing comes from the perceived inability of the Jews to fight back against their attackers, and this is certainly part of the equation. (In one of the more powerful scenes - though there... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ryan Gosling - Summer Phoenix Director(s): Henry Bean DVD Release Date: Released the 22 April 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Deliverance goes to high school in this grim, stripped-down fable of a prank gone bad. Friends decide to teach a lesson to a teenage bully by inviting him on a canoeing trip where they will humiliate him once and for all. The prank turns seriously sour, and the kids must deal with the consequences. Writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes takes a somber look at these lives, although his low-key approach makes the central tragedy seem melodramatic when it happens. The film isn't quite new enough to be truly revelatory, but Estes neatly avoids a River's Edge rehash by allowing his characters more than dead-eyed anomie. The actors hit their notes with precision, especially Rory Culkin (another of the Culkin family, with Macaulay and Kieran), Ryan Kelley, and Scott Mechlowicz. This is... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Rory Culkin - Ryan Kelley - Scott Mechlowicz Director(s): Jacob Aaron Estes DVD Release Date: Released the 25 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A huge hit in France, Love Me if You Dare takes the traditional l'amour fou scenario and runs it through a pinball machine. From childhood, Julien and Sophie engage in an obsessive battle of one-upmanship: if one of them hands a brightly colored candy tin to the other and makes a dare, the recipient is bound to honor it, no matter how destructive or dangerous the dare might be. When this wacky habit enters adulthood and begins wrecking their lives, they ought to change... but that's not how l'amour fou works. Part Amelie-style comedy, part dark fable, this movie has quirkiness to burn, if not always as much charm as it thinks it has. Leads Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard are ardent, although somewhat out-acted by their juvenile counterparts in the film's early section.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Guillaume Canet - Marion Cotillard - Thibault Verhaeghe - Joséphine Lebas-Joly Director(s): Yann Samuell DVD Release Date: Released the 19 October 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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While reinventing Leopold and Loeb for a new and troubled millennium, Murder by Numbers probes the disturbing psychology of two teenaged murderers and the cleverness of their crime. Like Hitchcock's Rope and other films inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case of the 1920s, the film intensifies as it explores the repressed (and subtly homosexual) tensions between high-school outcasts Richard (Ryan Gosling) and Justin (Michael Pitt), who randomly kill a woman to enact an amoral philosophy--and to tease a savvy homicide detective (Sandra Bullock) with misleading clues. While clashing with the by-the-book procedure of her partner (Ben Chaplin), Bullock gives one of her best performances in a role that comes with its own set of psychological hurdles. It's comfortable territory for... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Sandra Bullock Director(s): Barbet Schroeder DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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