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When smart, quiet suburban student Leland Fitzgerald commits a shocking crime, he becomes the center of a maelstrom of people trying to understand what he did and why, from his famous but absent father, to his troubled ex-girlfriend to the victim’s devastated family. The only person Leland trusts is Pearl, a jaded juvenile hall teacher and aspiring writer who helps Leland to examine the truth of his crime. Yet, Pearl too, has his own exploitative agenda, using Leland to garner material for a book and further his own career--until he begins to see that Leland is giving him something he never expected; not the concrete answer he seeks, or the literary fame he hopes for, but the realization that now is the time to change his own life for the better.

Production Status : Released
Genres : Drama and Crime/Gangster
Running Time : 1 hr. 44 min.
Release Date : April 2nd, 2004 (LA/NY)
MPAA Rating : R for for language and some drug content.
Production Co. : Trigger Street Productions, Thousand Words, Media 8 Entertainment

Director : Matthew Ryan Hoge

Writers : Matthew Ryan Hoge (Screenplay)

Cast : Ryan Gosling (Leland Fitzgerald), Chris Klein (Allen Harris), Don Cheadle (Pearl Madison), Jena Malone (Becky Pollard), Michelle Williams (Jennifer Pollard), Kevin Spacey (Albert T Fitzgerald)