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Synopsis

Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is an idealistic inner-city junior high school teacher who inspires his students to challenge the status quo. Though he keeps it together in the classroom, Dan has a serious drug habit. He keeps his lives precariously separated, until one of his troubled students, Drey, catches him getting high after school. From this awkward beginning, Dan and Drey stumble into an unexpected friendship that threatens to undo them or provide the vital change they both need to move forward with their lives.

Film Information

• Genre: Drama
• Director: Ryan Fleck
• Written By: Anna Boden , Ryan Fleck
• Starring: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Monique Curnen, Deborah Rush, Jay O. Sanders, and Tina Holmes
• Running Time: 106 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R for drug content throughout, language and some sexuality
• Language: English
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Reviews

"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."

   - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

"Superb drama from New York-based filmmakers Ryan Flek and Anna Boden."

   - Ken Fox, TV Guide

"Gosling excels at playing contradictory characters like this one, having kick-started his career as a Jewish neo-Nazi in"

   - Scott Tobias, The Onion (A.V. Club)

"The audacity of making an inner-city drama in which the white-male authority figure is the crackhead finds its equal in Gosling's already legendary performance, a high-wire act that's gutsiest for its unconscionable charm."

   - Rob Nelson, Village Voice

"What makes HALF NELSON both an unusual and an exceptional American film, particularly at a time when even films about Sept. 11 are professed to have no politics, is its insistence on political consciousness as a moral imperative."

   - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Showtimes

• Wednesday, September 27th
  9:30 pm
• Thursday, September 28th
  7:00 pm
• Friday, September 29th
  9:30 pm
• Saturday, September 30th
  4:30 pm, 9:30 pm
• Sunday, October 1st
  7:00 pm
• Monday, October 2nd
  4:30 pm, 9:15 pm
• Tuesday, October 3rd
  7:00 pm
• Wednesday, October 4th
  9:15 pm
• Thursday, October 5th
  9:15 pm
• Friday, October 6th
  7:00 pm
• Saturday, October 7th
  2:00 pm, 9:15 pm
• Sunday, October 8th
  4:30 pm
• Monday, October 9th
  9:30 pm
• Tuesday, October 10th
  4:30 pm