• Plot Description
• Soundtrack
• Wallpapers
• Popularity
Release Date
• USA: Aug 11, 2006
Budget USD 700,000
BoxOffice: $2.6M
MPAA Rating
Rated R for drug content throughout, language and some sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 46 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Hunting Lane Films, Silverwood Films, Journeyman Pictures, Original Media, Traction Media
Studio ThinkFilm
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Half Nelson (2006)
|
Genre: Drama
Plot: High school teacher Dan (Ryan Gosling) and quiet teenager Drey (Shareeka Epps) are two lonely souls who wander the planet looking to attach some semblance of meaning to their chaotic lives. Dan teaches Drey in a dilapidated school in Brooklyn, New York. Their relationship is unremarkable until Drey discovers Dan collapsed and clutching a crack pipe in a grimy toilet cubicle in the high school gym. It is from this pivotal moment that director Ryan Fleck builds a tentative friendship between these two unlikely allies, creating one of 2006's most arresting films in the process. Carefully steering his film away from any overtly sentimental material, Fleck and co-writer Anna Boden create a gritty, powerful narrative that feels painfully real as it flickers into life. Very little back-story to either of Fleck and Boden's central protagonists is revealed, forcing the audience to draw its own conclusions as to what personal hells Dan or Drey may have emerged from. Dan's addiction steadily worsens as the movie progresses, and Gosling portrays his drug-addled life in the saddest way possible. Dan is a likeable character with a clear affection for the kids he teaches, and it's distressing to watch him losing his grip on reality. Relief comes only intermittently as Drey's presence in
More Plot Descriptions
 |
Related Movies:
|
 Discussion forum for this movie
|
| |
![]()  Submit a trailer link
|
| Directed by |
Ryan Fleck
Have You Seen This Man?, Gowanus, Brooklyn, Young Rebels |
|
| Written by |
Anna Boden
Gowanus, Brooklyn, Have You Seen This Man?, Young Rebels | Ryan Fleck
Have You Seen This Man?, Gowanus, Brooklyn, Young Rebels |
|
|
|
In Theaters
