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America Ferrera, Melissa Leo, and Ryan O'Nan will headline the movie American Tragic, written and directed by Ryan Piers Williams, according to Variety.
O'Nan, who is currently starring Off-Broadway in Made in Poland, will play a young war veteran who sets off on a cross-country trip with his buddy. Ferrera, who stars in the title role on ABC's Ugly Betty and appeared Off-Broadway in Dog Sees God will play his wife; she will also be the movie's executive producer. Leo, who won a Drama Desk Award for The Distance From Here, will play his mother.
The film will shoot in New Mexico beginning in February with a projected release for fall 2009.
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