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Half Nelson

Rating:R (for drug content throughout, language and some sexuality)
Genre:Drama
Release Date:August 11, 2006
Running time:106 minutes
Cast:Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Tina Holmes, Jay O. Sanders
Director:Ryan Fleck
Producer:Anna Boden, Lynette Howell, Rosanne Korenberg, Alex Orlovsky, Jamie Patricof
Writer:Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden
Distributor:ThinkFilm

Description: Dan Dunne is an idealistic inner-city junior high school teacher. Although he can get it together in the classroom, he spends his time outside school on the edge of consciousness. He juggles his hangovers and his homework, keeping his lives precariously separated, until one of his troubled students, Drey, catches him in a compromising situation. From this awkward beginning, Dan and Drey stumble into an unexpected friendship that threatens either to undo them, or to provide the vital change they both need to move forward in their lives.

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