From the talented Academy Award® nominated British director, Mehdi Norowzian, and featuring unforgettable and exquisite performances from a multi award winning cast including Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth), Academy Award® nominees Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider), Elizabeth Shue (First Born) and Sam Shepherd (Swordfish, The Notebook) plus Grey’s Anatomy star Justin Chambers, LEO is an unmissable and enthralling masterpiece available to own and rent on DVD from 27th October 2008.
This mesmerizing and intriguing tale of two parallel lives, take characters from James Joyce’s Ulysses and places them in the southern American states. This absorbing and compelling story of human tragedy and how it reverberates through future generations is packed with breathtaking performances from an all-star cast, making this film gripping entertainment at its best!
Having served 15 years for murder, the reserved and distant Stephen (Fiennes) is released and begins working at a local diner, revealing little about his past to owner Vic (Shepperd) or local redneck (Hopper). Meanwhile, the painfully shy Leo is growing up in a loveless and dysfunctional environment with his depressed and fiery mother, Elizabeth (Shue), who has never recovered from the tragic loss of her husband and daughter in a horrific road accident days before Leo’s birth. The link between these two remarkable characters is revealed thorough the intelligent and successfully crafted dual narrative and the powerful cinematography which has earned comparisons with American Beauty from Film 4.