Every Jared Leto Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

14. How To Make An American Quilt (1995)

Jared Leto Suicide Squad
Universal

Leto's first feature film role was in the horribly-titled How to Make an American Quilt, which stars Winona Ryder as Finn Dodd, a woman who visits her grandmother's quilting group to mull over a recent marriage proposal and hear their own life stories.

Script-wise this thing is all over the map but it more often than not works as a heartfelt melodrama about the complexities of maintaining romantic relationships.

The cast is insanely stacked - also including Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Lois Smith, Samantha Mathis, Jean Simmons, Alfre Woodard, Maya Angelou, Kate Capshaw, Dermot Mulroney, Rip Torn, and Richard Jenkins - enough to paper over its somewhat deflating narrative trajectory.

Leto has only a small role as one of the several unsavoury men depicted throughout, but does fine enough work with what material he has.

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