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Alpha Dog (2006) -- A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.
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Alpha Dog (2006) -- A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.
Alpha Dog (2006) -- A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.

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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Nick Cassavetes (written by)
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Release Date:
12 January 2007 (USA) more
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Inspired by true events. more
Plot:
A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list. full summary | full synopsis
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1 win & 2 nominations more
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(128 articles)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bruce Willis ... Sonny Truelove

Matthew Barry ... Interviewer (as Matt Barry)

Emile Hirsch ... Johnny Truelove
Fernando Vargas ... Tiko 'TKO' Martinez

Vincent Kartheiser ... Pick Giaimo

Justin Timberlake ... Frankie Ballenbacher

Shawn Hatosy ... Elvis Schmidt
Alex Solowitz ... Bobby '911'
Alec Vigil ... P.J. Truelove

Harry Dean Stanton ... Cosmo Gadabeeti
Frank Cassavetes ... Adrian Jones
Nicole Dubos ... Neighborhood Girl on Couch

Regina Rice ... Dance Bitch Girl

Laura Nativo ... Party Girl

Ben Foster ... Jake Mazursky
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Also Known As:
Jesse James Hollywood (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for pervasive drug use and language, strong violence, sexuality and nudity.
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USA:122 min | USA:117 min (Sundance Film Festival) | Germany:118 min | Argentina:122 min
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In a scene where they have a fight, Sharon Stone hit Ben Foster so hard that his nose started bleeding. He told her to do so, because he said the scene needed to be as realistic as possible. more
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Continuity: When Jake is dunking Truelove's head into the pool, Truelove's dog runs out and starts tugging on Jake's right leg. In the next shot when Jake is being pulled off of Truelove and away from the pool his right leg is now coming out of the pool as he is being dragged away. more
Quotes:
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Sonny Truelove: You wanna know what this is all about? You can say it's about drugs or guns or disaffected youth, or whatever you like. But this whole thing is about parenting. It's about taking care of your children. You take care of yours, I take care of mine.
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References Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) more
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Minor's Daughter more

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395 out of 530 people found the following review useful.
Surprisingly good, 5 February 2006
9/10
Author: farrellrose from Hollywood

I got a chance to see a screening of this at Sundance.

This movie sucks you in, seduces you, entrances you, then whacks you over the head with a baseball bat.

It starts off fairly annoying... bunch of pimply-faced white wanna-be's spouting rapid fire ghetto speak with rap music blaring in the background. Eminem would be proud. I thought to myself, "oh no, here we go to one dimensional city...".

But after a while these characters became very likable. These are REAL characters, living a really dangerous life style. The effect is similar in Goodfellas... they're so bad, so annoying, but fascinating, and free in ways ordinary people aren't. They do what they want, when they want and give you a bloody nose if you try and stop them.

There's a mood, an energy, a style that Cassavettes was able to capture and portray that made this film so far removed from any clichéd studio product geared toward teenyboppers. The film feels honest and genuine, and that's the difference.

At a certain point, after all the partying, and boozing and drugging, the film takes a turn for the worse and climaxes into a gut wrenching, horrible tragedy that left me (and the audience) stunned.

Overall it's an extremely well crafted film, definitely worth seeing.

And I almost forgot to mention the biggest surprise of all... Justin Timberlake. Forget what you know, forget N'SYNC, this guy is a real actor. I almost feel strange saying this, but it's true... He was stunning, almost stole the movie; crackled whenever he was on screen. He has all the right ingredients for a stellar acting career; charisma, screen presence, that separates him from the pretty faced phonies clogging the movie screens. Every moment he was on screen he was doing something that worked, and he makes it look easy, the most important trait a great actor has. I'll definitely be watching his acting career very closely from now on.

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