The United States Of Leland

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Status: Released

Runtime: 108

Budget: $0

Revenue: $0

Language(s): en

Webpage: -

Release Info

Released: 2003-01-18
Rated: R

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The United States Of Leland (2003)

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State Of Mind
El mundo de Leland
Les états-Unis de Leland

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The film begins with a flashback narrated by Leland P. Fitzgerald (Gosling), describing how he couldn't remember the details of the day that he killed a mentally retarded boy named Ryan Pollard (Michael Welch). Leland is arrested while the rest of the town reacts with shock to the senseless murder. Ryan's parents (Martin Donovan and Ann Magnuson), sisters Becky (Jena Malone) and Julie (Williams), as well as Julie's live-in boyfriend Allen (Klein) grieve the loss of their loved one. Leland's divorced mother (Lena Olin) is desperate to see her son, while his father, famous writer Albert Fitzgerald (Kevin Spacey), discovers his son's fate in a newspaper and returns home to be there for the trial.