Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Beginning with the killing of a boy by 16-year-old Leland Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling), whose subsequent arrest and imprisonment precipitates a relationship with prison teacher Pearl Madison (Don Cheadle), The United States of Leland asks why such a horrible tragedy could take place.
Beginning with the killing of a boy by 16-year-old Leland Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling), whose subsequent arrest and imprisonment precipitates a relationship with prison teacher Pearl Madison (Don Cheadle), The United States of Leland asks why such a horrible tragedy could take place.