Information
Released Year: 2006
Runtime: 122 minutes
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
Casts: Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Lukas Haas, Justin Timberlake, Angela Meryl, Matthew Barry, Bruce Willis, Amber Heard, Harry Dean Stanton, Chris Marquette, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Holt McCallany, Curt Clendenin, Chuck Pacheco, Jesse Erwin, Matt Borlenghi, Sharon Stone, Danny A. Abeckaser, Shawn Hatosy, David Thornton, Heather Wahlquist, Nancy De Mayo, Paul Johansson, Anton Yelchin, Vincent Kartheiser, Alex Kingston, Shera Danese, Frank Cassavetes, Janet Jones, Chris Kinkade, Rick Salomon, Frank Peluso, Dominique Swain, Kristen Williams, Fernando Vargas, Alex Solowitz, Alec Vigil, Nicole Dubos, Regina Rice, Laura Nativo, Xan Cassavetes, Charity Shea, Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst, James Molina, Joshua Alba, Bobby Cooper, Stephanie A. Fowler, Alan Thicke, Adrianna Belan, Shirley Kurata, Mario Ardila Jr., Berna Roberts, Emilio Roso, Sadie
IMDB: Alpha Dog (2006)
Ratings: 
(123 votes, average: 2.74 out of 5)
Loading...
(123 votes, average: 2.74 out of 5)Loading...Reviews
|
|
L.A. Weekly -
In his best film to date, Nick Cassavetes directs with ferocious energy, taking scenes past their logical stopping points and pushing his actors (particularly Foster, who can be as terrifying as Edward Norton in "American History X") to, but never over, the precipice of absurdity.
|
|
|
ReelViews -
Alpha Dog isn't a happy movie, but it's dramatically solid and the impressions it leaves will not be easily shaken.
|
|
|
Village Voice -
If nothing else, Alpha Dog's worth a look for the performance of Justin Timberlake, the moral center of a movie sorely in need of some conscience. Already a gifted comic actor--his Saturday Night Live appearances are now anticipated events--he proves himself able to go to a pitch-black place.
|
|
|
Variety -
Writer-director Nick Cassavetes' sprawling dramatization recklessly blurs the line between reconstruction and reality in ways that are admittedly interesting, if more than a little artistically suspect.
|
|
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
For all of the credibility of the performances (or at least the teens), it all feels like recycled social commentary.
|
Alpha Dog (2006)
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'
Alpha Dog (2006)
(123 votes, average: 2.74 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 2006
Runtime: 122 minutes
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
Casts: Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Lukas Haas, Justin Timberlake, Angela Meryl, Matthew Barry, Bruce Willis, Amber Heard, Harry Dean Stanton, Chris Marquette, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Holt McCallany, Curt Clendenin, Chuck Pacheco, Jesse Erwin, Matt Borlenghi, Sharon Stone, Danny A. Abeckaser, Shawn Hatosy, David Thornton, Heather Wahlquist, Nancy De Mayo, Paul Johansson, Anton Yelchin, Vincent Kartheiser, Alex Kingston, Shera Danese, Frank Cassavetes, Janet Jones, Chris Kinkade, Rick Salomon, Frank Peluso, Dominique Swain, Kristen Williams, Fernando Vargas, Alex Solowitz, Alec Vigil, Nicole Dubos, Regina Rice, Laura Nativo, Xan Cassavetes, Charity Shea, Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst, James Molina, Joshua Alba, Bobby Cooper, Stephanie A. Fowler, Alan Thicke, Adrianna Belan, Shirley Kurata, Mario Ardila Jr., Berna Roberts, Emilio Roso, Sadie
IMDB: Alpha Dog (2006)
Storyline
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'
Trailer
Reviews
|
|
L.A. Weekly -
In his best film to date, Nick Cassavetes directs with ferocious energy, taking scenes past their logical stopping points and pushing his actors (particularly Foster, who can be as terrifying as Edward Norton in "American History X") to, but never over, the precipice of absurdity.
|
|
|
ReelViews -
Alpha Dog isn't a happy movie, but it's dramatically solid and the impressions it leaves will not be easily shaken.
|
|
|
Village Voice -
If nothing else, Alpha Dog's worth a look for the performance of Justin Timberlake, the moral center of a movie sorely in need of some conscience. Already a gifted comic actor--his Saturday Night Live appearances are now anticipated events--he proves himself able to go to a pitch-black place.
|
|
|
Variety -
Writer-director Nick Cassavetes' sprawling dramatization recklessly blurs the line between reconstruction and reality in ways that are admittedly interesting, if more than a little artistically suspect.
|
|
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
For all of the credibility of the performances (or at least the teens), it all feels like recycled social commentary.
|
Related Movies
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'