Half Nelson
107 minutes,
USA (2006), 15
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(4.3 / 29 votes)
(4.3 / 29 votes)
Ryan Gosling is an inner city teacher in crisis in this powerful classroom drama
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Half Nelson: American cinema's image of the inner city high school has always been divided along strict ideological lines, generally allowing for only two plot types: in films of a liberal persuasion, teachers are inspirational alchemists able to elevate their young wards from underclass to top-of-the-class (Stand And Deliver, Lean On Me, Dangerous Minds); while in films of a more reactionary bent, teachers become enraged vigilantes, enforcing school discipline by beating the living crap out of their delinquent wards (Class Of 1984, The Principal, One Eight Seven)...
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