MOVIE · 2006
Half Nelson
Drama107 min
Brooklyn junior-high teacher Dan Dunne keeps two lives running at once: in the classroom, he pushes his students to think beyond the textbook; after school, addiction pulls him somewhere darker. Ryan Gosling is Dan, whose secret comes into the open when Drey (Shareeka Epps), one of his students, finds him getting high. Their uneasy connection develops in the space between school routines and the pressures waiting outside, with class, authority, and trust hanging over every encounter.
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