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Release Date: 2006

Cast: Bryce Silver, Erica Rivera, Kaela C. Pabon, Jeff Lima, Sebastian Sozzi, Stephanie Bast, Nicole Vicius, Denis O'Hare, Jay O. Sanders, Deborah Rush, Eleanor Hutchins, Shareeka Epps ...MORE

Cast: Bryce Silver, Erica Rivera, Kaela C. Pabon, Jeff Lima, Sebastian Sozzi, Stephanie Bast, Nicole Vicius, Denis O'Hare, Jay O. Sanders, Deborah Rush, Eleanor Hutchins, Shareeka Epps, Ryan Gosling, Rosemary Ledee, Karen Chilton, Tina Holmes, Anthony Mackie, Nathan Corbett, Tristan Wilds, Tyra Kwao-Vovo ...LESS

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Half Nelson is a 2006 American drama film directed by Ryan Fleck and written by Anna Boden and Fleck; it stars Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie. The film was scored by Juno Award winning Canadian band – Broken Social Scene. Gosling received an Academy Award nomination for lead actor for his role in the film. The story concerns an inner city middle-school teacher who forms a friendship with one of his students after she discovers that he has a drug habit. The film is based on a 19-minute film made by Boden and Fleck in 2004, titled Gowanus, Brooklyn. It premiered in... MORE

Half Nelson is a 2006 American drama film directed by Ryan Fleck and written by Anna Boden and Fleck; it stars Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie. The film was scored by Juno Award winning Canadian band – Broken Social Scene. Gosling received an Academy Award nomination for lead actor for his role in the film. The story concerns an inner city middle-school teacher who forms a friendship with one of his students after she discovers that he has a drug habit. The film is based on a 19-minute film made by Boden and Fleck in 2004, titled Gowanus, Brooklyn. It premiered in competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It was released theatrically on August 11, 2006. Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a young urban middle-school history teacher at a Brooklyn school, with a teaching style that rejects the standard curriculum in favor of an approach based upon dialectics. Though he seems to have it all together in the classroom, in his own time he is found frequently snorting and freebasing cocaine. But after a basketball game, Dan's ex-girlfriend, Rachel (Tina Holmes) turns up, evoking emotions that he cannot handle. A short while later, one of his students (and a player on the LESS