Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo's "Francine," from directors Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on February 13. Check out the new poster for the American-Canadian co-production. Leo stars as woman regaining her foothold in society after being released from prison. The security of temporary jobs proves just as elusive as the relationships she tries to build with the people in her new-found small town in North America...  

Melissa Leo discusses Red State with Krista Smith at the Sundance Film Festival.  

One Oscar winner, an Oscar nominee and the actor who made the EGOT famous simultaneously elevate the quirky family drama Predisposed. Melissa Leo plays a drug addicted mother whose son, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is forced on a madcap adventure on the most important day of his life. On his way to drop mom off at rehab, he's taken hostage by a a crazy drug dealer (Tracy Morgan), takes oxycontin, is forced to parent his little sister and even...  

BERLIN – Francine, a drama about a recently released convict starring Oscar-winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter ... as a struggling musician fighting his wife for custody of his young daughter, will also screen in the Forum line up in its international ...  

Written and directed by Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, it will premiere in the festival's Forum sidebar for independent and experimental cinema.  

Scott Roxborough Berlin’s sidebar for experimental cinema includes 26 world premieres. read more  

Starring Kristen Stewart (Twilight saga, Into the Wild) James Gandolfini (Sopranos) and Oscar Winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter, Frozen). After the death of their daughter eight years ago, the lives of Doug (James Gandolfini) and Lois (Melissa Leo) Riley ...  

Written and directed by Woodstock's Philip Dorling and Stone Ridge's Ron Nyswaner, and starring Stone Ridge's Melissa Leo, "Predisposed" will make its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The festival announced the premiere of ...  

LOS ANGELES — Films featuring Ulster County residents Melissa Leoand Frances McDormand, Sean Penn, Paul Giamatti, Jesse Eisenberg, Tracy Morgan and Melissa Leo are among late additions to next month’s Sundance Film Festival. Organizers for ...  

New films starring Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Paul Giamatti, Jesse Eisenberg and Melissa Leo have been added to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. Four additional films are set to join the previously announced line-up, bringing the total number of ...  

A year ago, all four actors who won Oscars earned Globes first – lead players Colin Firth for “The King’s Speech” and Natalie Portman for “Black Swan” and “The Fighter” supporting stars Christian Bale and Melissa Leo. Along with ...  

New films starring Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Paul Giamatti, Jesse Eisenberg and Melissa Leo have been added to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.