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Seemingly intelligent high school student Leland P. Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) has just killed an autistic boy for no clear reason. In Juvenile Hall, he has to come to terms with what he has done. Outside, his alcoholic father (Kevin Spacey), his girlfriend (Jena Malone) and others in the community grapple...
Watching Matthew Hoge and Jena Malone amble over to their eagerly waiting interviewers in the lobby of Boston’s Ritz-Carlton, it is immediately apparent that working on the set of Hoge’s film The United States of Leland was a genuine bonding experience. They?...
Leland, played by rising star Ryan Gosling (The Believer), is a teenage killer, the child of a stable suburban home who commits the unthinkably brutal act of killing the autistic brother of his girlfriend, played by Jena Malone.
The most obvious stand-in for Hoge himself in Leland seems to be Pearl (Don Cheadle), a juvenile prison teacher who befriends the incarcerated Leland. When an interviewer asks which character Hoge related to most, the nearby Malone cracks a smile.
Tunde Adebimpe’s distinctively shiny voice, combined with the hypnotic falsetto chiming of Kyp Malone, is what makes this record so unique. The music, looping beats and random instrumental coloring, plays background to the luscious vocal harmonies. A capella love song “Ambulance” is...