Leo Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mehdi Norowzian
Genres: Drama
A literary drama offering the parallel tales of two wounded souls, director Mehdi_Norowzian's tale of redemption and the struggle to find one's place in life finds an ex-convict's correspondence with a young boy offering hope for the future despite the fact that the boy has yet to find his own place in the world. Believing that her husband has been unfaithful, Mary Bloom (Elisabeth_Shue) embarks on an affair with a young handyman (Justin_Chambers) that results in her pregnancy. Racked with guilt when her husband dies in a car accident shortly thereafter, Mary begins to hate her son, Leo (Davis Sweat), leaving the youngster hungering for affection. Assigned correspondence with a convict for a class project, the withdrawn Leo begins to form a close bond with Stephen (Joseph_Fiennes), who increasingly relies on his communication with Leo as a form of cathartic repentance. When Stephen is released from jail, he gets a job at a diner where concerned co-workers Vic (Sam_Shepard) and Caroline (Deborah_Unger) attempt to help him establish himself on the outside. Simultaneously brutalized by local drunk Horace (Dennis_Hopper), Stephen decides to leave the diner and search for the boy whose letters carried him through his darkest days. Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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