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Overview
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Release Date:
11 August 2006 (USA)
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Tagline:
Secrets don't let go.
Plot:
An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret. full summary | full synopsis
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Drugs
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Classroom
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Single Mother
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Crack
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History Teacher
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 22 wins
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21 nominations
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(149 articles)
The Notable Films of 2010: Part Five
(From Dark Horizons. 23 December 2009, 10:10 AM, PST)
Decade: Ryan Fleck on “Half Nelson”
(From indieWIRE - People. 20 December 2009, 8:03 PM, PST)
(From Dark Horizons. 23 December 2009, 10:10 AM, PST)
Decade: Ryan Fleck on “Half Nelson”
(From indieWIRE - People. 20 December 2009, 8:03 PM, PST)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ryan Gosling | ... | Dan Dunne | |
| Jeff Lima | ... | Roodly | |
| Shareeka Epps | ... | Drey | |
| Nathan Corbett | ... | Terrance | |
| Tyra Kwao-Vovo | ... | Stacy | |
| Rosemary Ledee | ... | Gina | |
| Tristan Wilds | ... | Jamal | |
| Bryce Silver | ... | Bernard | |
| Kaela C. Pabon | ... | Lena | |
| Erica Rivera | ... | Erika (as Erika Rivera) | |
| Stephanie Bast | ... | Vanessa | |
| Eleanor Hutchins | ... | Simone | |
| Sebastian Sozzi | ... | Javier | |
| Tina Holmes | ... | Rachel | |
| Karen Chilton | ... | Karen |
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Rated R for drug content throughout, language and some sexuality.
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USA:106 min (Sundance Film Festival)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R |
Singapore:M18 |
Portugal:M/16 |
UK:15 |
Australia:MA |
Sweden:7 |
Ireland:15A |
Finland:K-13 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Germany:12 |
Norway:10 (TV rating) |
Norway:11
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Although it was produced and shot in New York City, the Toronto band Broken Social Scene is featured prominently on the soundtrack. Broken Social Scene even recorded some original music for the film.
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Featured in 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007) (TV)
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Last Place
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What is a Half Nelson?Why is the film titled after a wrestling move?
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Ryan Gosling made happen what happens only once every so often. Made me look at what I seen before under a new magnifying light. He took me with him and showed me, with the most astonishing clarity, the complexity of a talented man dragged down by a legacy of good intentions and addiction. We're permitted to visit his family once and we understand what he's fighting with without any weapons. He doesn't blame anyone but he's the result of his own DNA and he knows it. His bright moments, the explanation of what History is for instance, is a glimpse into the man he could actually be, fully. The humanity that Ryan Gosling lends to his character on his darker moments it's as chillingly real as it is moving. The chemistry he establishes with the wonderful Shareeka Epps is as powerful as the one he established with me. I want to meet him, I want to meet Dan and while I was thinking that I realize I know him already. He lives next door to me, he's related to me, I was his friend. This is what superb performances do. They re-awake you.