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TrailerIdealistic inner-city junior high school teacher Dan Dunne with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.Genre: DramaActors: Ryan Gosling, Jeff Lima, Shareeka Epps, Nathan Corbett, Tyra Kwao-Vovo, Rosemary Ledee, Tristan Mack Wilds, Bryce Silver, Kaela C. Pabon, Erica Rivera, Stephanie Bast, ...»Director: Ryan FleckCountry: United StatesDuration: 106 minQuality: HDRelease: 2006IMDb: 7.1Rating(0) Voted0 CommentsSort By- Newest
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Actors of "Half Nelson"
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Characters of "Half Nelson"
Dan DunnePlayed by: Ryan Gosling
RoodlyPlayed by: Jeff Lima
DreyPlayed by: Shareeka Epps
TerrancePlayed by: Nathan Corbett
StacyPlayed by: Tyra Kwao-Vovo
GinaPlayed by: Rosemary Ledee
JamalPlayed by: Tristan Mack Wilds
BernardPlayed by: Bryce Silver
LenaPlayed by: Kaela C. Pabon
ErikaPlayed by: Erica Rivera
VanessaPlayed by: Stephanie Bast
SimonePlayed by: Eleanor Hutchins
JavierPlayed by: Sebastian Sozzi
RachelPlayed by: Tina Holmes
KarenPlayed by: Karen Chilton
Principal HendersonPlayed by: Starla Benford
FrankPlayed by: Anthony Mackie
JimboPlayed by: Denis O'Hare
IsabelPlayed by: Monique Gabriela Curnen
TinaPlayed by: Deidre Goodwin
MikePlayed by: Collins Pennie
EarlePlayed by: Raymond Anthony Thomas
Mr. DicksonPlayed by: Ron Cephas Jones
CharlesPlayed by: Christopher Williamson
RosePlayed by: Leslie Eva Glaser
SuzannePlayed by: Sharon Washington
Jo DunnePlayed by: Deborah Rush
Russ DunnePlayed by: Jay O. Sanders
CindyPlayed by: Nicole Vicius
Jeff DunnePlayed by: David Easton -
Directors of "Half Nelson"
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Creators of "Half Nelson"
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Critic Reviews of "Half Nelson"
NPR.orgOctober 18, 2008Ryan Gosling's self-destructive teacher is easily the year's most mesmerizing character study. And he's hardly the only reason to see this film. Shareeka Epps anchors her scenes as Drey with a self-possession way beyond her years.
Time OutOctober 30, 2006Gosling and Epps, an unusual but effective pairing, show real commitment in their performances.
Orlando SentinelOctober 20, 2006The movie comes down to Gosling's spot-on performance and how we feel about it.
Salon.comOctober 07, 2006Gosling is indeed amazing as a bewildered, depressed New York schoolteacher who is slipping into dire drug addiction; it's exactly the kind of star turn in a smaller film that Academy voters could (and should) notice.
Detroit Free PressOctober 06, 2006Although the subject promises more than the film can deliver, there is compensation in Gosling's convincing, unromanticized portrayal of someone seeking escape from longing and loss that neither he nor the movie can really define.
RogerEbert.comSeptember 27, 2006This movie... is concerned with an even greater achievement that is generally unacknowledged: how people -- flawed, miserable, frustrated people -- go to work every day and find a way to care about something beyond themselves, despite themselves.
Common Sense MediaDecember 15, 2010Indie inner-city drama with drug-addict teacher.
Suite101.comSeptember 24, 2010"Half Nelson" elegantly tiptoe around its elephant in the room: Dan's most compelling instruction to not let Drey enter the drug trade is his own destruction. That point of panic turns into something approaching penance.
CinePassionAugust 30, 2009The filmmakers bask disingenuously in their tidy vision of border-busting healing
Boston PhoenixApril 23, 2009A sometimes subtle, sometimes bombastic (Gosling's performance ranges from brilliant to bug-eyed) parable about class, race, power, and the dialectics of family relationships.
ColeSmithey.comApril 22, 2009The movie hits a stream of false notes when Dunne's students deliver oral reports on Civil Rights struggles that could only have been plagiarized. The film's ending isn't only meager, it's utterly listless.
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