leo be the kind of film few people will have hear of and that your local video store dealer will try to get you to rent because he know nothing about it and either and and want you to check it out for him . that what happen to me and at least . and with a cast this interesting and why not . let me tell you why not . this be a very ambitious attempt to deal with theme of identity and child abuse and guilt and redemption and acceptance ( all wrap around james joyce and his ulysses and for christ sake . ) with almost none of the requisite writing or direct talent to back up all that ambition . the director appear to have rely upon his good cast and who undoubtedly come aboard due to the ambitious script . but act talent can only go so far while here and it stop well short of productivity . elizabeth shue be particularly wasted emote to beat the band in a role that be one note ( well and one and one half ) and tiresome . a young actor name davis sweatt do wonder with the main character a an adolescent and and joseph fiennes be fine and too . deborah kara unger get abuse again ( she get to stop this sort of thing ) and dennis hopper be his usual nut case and and sam shepard laconic and macho . by film end and almost anything good have fall away and what be leave seem like pure pretension . it rare to see so much possibility come to so little .