Biography: Melissa Leo |
After supporting roles in a handful of small films and a short stint on the soap opera All My Children, New York-born Melissa Leo gained prominence on the critically-acclaimed Barry Levinson-produced television drama Homicide: Life on the Streets.... more
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Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: min
Mark Wahlberg stars in Paramount Pictures' inspirational docudrama exploring the remarkable rise of Massachusetts-born lightweight title winner "Irish" Micky Ward. A determined pugilist whose career in the ring was shepherded by his loyal...
Cast: James Gandolfini
Tags: Drama Marriage Drama Psychological Drama
Length: min
Their relationship steadily deteriorating in the eight years following their daughter's untimely death, a married couple unable to break the cycle of grief gets a second shot at love thanks to a scrappy underage prostitute in this family drama...
Cast: Pruitt Taylor Vince Elisabeth Shue
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 87min
First time writer/director Jake Goldberger takes the helm for this hriller about a man who returns to his hometown after receiving a letter from his high school sweetheart, who claims to be dying. It's been twenty-five years since Don McKay (Thomas...
Tags: Road Movie Drama
Length: min
A young war veteran (Ryan O'Nan) hits the road with a friend on a soul-searching trip in this Maya Entertainment production. Ryan Piers Williams directs from his own script, with the rest of the cast headed up by Ugly Betty's America Ferrera as the...
Tags: Teen Movie Comedy Coming-of-Age
Length: 88min
An ageing Seattle rocker takes a pair of teens on a camping trip in this warm-hearted coming of age story starring Mark Duplass and Academy Award-nominee Melissa Leo. Sam Bryant (Duplass) isn't exactly the kind of guy a parent would recruit to take...
Cast: Melissa Leo Michael O'Keefe
Tags: Slice of Life Family Drama Drama
Length: 96min
A desperate single mother living in upstate New York resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet in first-time feature director/screenwriter Courtney Hunt's emotionally wrenching drama, winner of the...
Cast: Brendan Gleeson Michael Angarano
Tags: Drama Family Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 94min
A young man struggles to grow up with principles as his family begins to self-destruct around him in this coming of age drama. Cole McKay (Michael Angarano) is a boy in his middle-teens growing up in an Irish-Catholic family in Boston. While Cole has...
Cast: David Strathairn Giancarlo Esposito
Tags: Supernatural Drama Romance Romantic Fantasy
Length: 83min
David Strathairn and Melissa Leo star in first-time feature filmmaker Nicole Quinn's Racing Daylight, a feature length love story told in three short films about hope and forgiveness. Part ghost story, part murder mystery, and part time-shifting tale...
Tags: Thriller
Length: 96min
A woman will go to any lengths to protect her wayward son in this hriller from South African filmmaker Darrell James Roodt. Stephanie (Melissa Leo) is a middle-aged woman living in Tennessee, where she waits tables to help her family make ends meet....
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