Half Nelson (film)
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| Directed by | Ryan Fleck |
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| Music by | Broken Social Scene |
| Cinematography | Andrij Parekh |
| Edited by | Anna Boden |
| Distributed by | ThinkFilm |
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106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $700,000 |
| Box office | $4.9 million |
| Half Nelson: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | August 8, 2006 |
| Recorded | 2006 |
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Indie pop Indie rock |
| Length | 56:46 |
| Label | Lakeshore Records |
| Producer | Mark Ronson |
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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 was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.
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 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).
Though he seems to have it all together in the classroom, on his own time he is found frequently snorting and freebasing cocaine. 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 girls' basketball team he coaches), Drey (Shareeka Epps), catches him getting high in the locker room.
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