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Half Nelson is a american film of genre Drama directed by Anna Boden released in USA on 11 august 2006 with Ryan Gosling

Half Nelson (2007)

Half Nelson
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Released in USA 11 august 2006
Length 1h46
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating70% 3.547633.547633.547633.547633.54763

Half Nelson is a 2006 American drama film directed by Ryan Fleck, written by Fleck and Anna Boden. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie. It was scored by Juno Award-winning Canadian band Broken Social Scene. Gosling received an Academy Award nomination for Best 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.

Synopsis

Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a young 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 (specifically Engels' three laws of dialectics, though this is never referred to by name).

Actors

Ryan Gosling

(Dan Dunne)Shareeka Epps

(Drey)Anthony Mackie

(Frank)Tina Holmes

(Rachel)Monique Curnen

(Isabel)
And :
Denis O'Hare
Deborah Rush
Jay O. Sanders
Collins Pennie
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