Half Nelson
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- Synopsis
- An inner-city teacher struggling with addiction forms an unlikely bond with a young student who catches him in a compromising position in director Ryan Fleck's feature-length adaptation of his own award-winning short film Gowanus, Brooklyn....
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- Starring
- Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Tina Holmes, Jay O. Sanders
- Director(s)
- Ryan Fleck
- Distributor(s)
- ThinkFilm
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 107 min.
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Critic Reviews
What is different about Half Nelson is the execution, the kind of subtlety in writing, directing and acting (by costars Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie as well as Gosling) you seldom see.Read the full review
Half Nelson offers an opportunity to marvel, once again, at the dazzling talent of Ryan Gosling for playing young men as believable as they are psychologically trip-wired.Read the full review
Gosling excels at playing contradictory characters like this one, having kick-started his career as a Jewish neo-Nazi in "The Believer," but here, his inner turmoil rarely gets vocalized. It's a remarkably subtle performance.Read the full review
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