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Inspired by true events, Alpha Dog follows three fateful days when the lives of a group of Southern California teens suddenly dead-ended. Johnny Truelove controls the drugs on the well-manicured streets of his neighborhood. Where Johnny goes, the party, the girls and his loyal gang follow. When he's double-crossed over missing deal money by raging hothead Jake, Johnny and his gang impulsively kidnap Jake's little brother, Zack, holding him as a marker and heading to Palm Springs. With no parents in sight, they grow used to having the kid around, and Zack enjoys an illicit summer fantasy of drinking, girls and new experiences. Out in the desert, Johnny and his boys lose sight that the kid is a hostage who can't just be neatly returned. As the days tick by, the options of how to get themselves out of their situation start to disappear. Good times turn bad and bad turns worse as Johnny finds himself out of his league and with no idea how to fix it...leading all these players toward a shocking conclusion they never saw coming.
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Screen Format: Color
Language: English
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Lew Irwin
After the failure of court efforts by attorneys for Jesse James Hollywood to halt the release of Nick Cassavetes' Alpha Dog, featuring Justin Timberlake, the movie finally arrives this weekend. Critics are damning the movie as strongly as the attorneys for Hollywood, accused of ordering the murder of a teenager in retaliation for his brother's drug debt. Alpha Dog is reportedly based on the case. "Sordid" is an adjective used in numerous reviews. But many go far beyond that description. Michael Booth's review in the Denver Post is typical. "I truly doubt Hollywood will produce anything this year that bottoms Alpha Dog for offensively bad filmmaking," he writes. Yet, the movie also receives a handful of respectable notices, too. Writes Claudia Puig in USA Today: "Alpha Dog is a gritty, gut-wrenching and disturbing film." And Lou Lumenick in the New York Post surprisingly takes a middle-ground calling it "irresponsible, uncommercial but surprisingly watchable."
Reviewed by: martin75082 on 7/24/2007 5:30:47 AM
I felt depressed at the end of the film, I so wanted it to turn out right but in reality and life that isn't what happens.
Lew Irwin
After the failure of court efforts by attorneys for Jesse James Hollywood to halt the release of Nick Cassavetes' Alpha Dog, featuring Justin Timberlake, the movie finally arrives this weekend. Critics are damning the movie as strongly as the attorneys for Hollywood, accused of ordering the murder of a teenager in retaliation for his brother's drug debt. Alpha Dog is reportedly based on the case. "Sordid" is an adjective used in numerous reviews. But many go far beyond that description. Michael Booth's review in the Denver Post is typical. "I truly doubt Hollywood will produce anything this year that bottoms Alpha Dog for offensively bad filmmaking," he writes. Yet, the movie also receives a handful of respectable notices, too. Writes Claudia Puig in USA Today: "Alpha Dog is a gritty, gut-wrenching and disturbing film." And Lou Lumenick in the New York Post surprisingly takes a middle-ground calling it "irresponsible, uncommercial but surprisingly watchable."
Reviewed by: martin75082 on 7/24/2007 5:30:47 AM
I felt depressed at the end of the film, I so wanted it to turn out right but in reality and life that isn't what happens.
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Reviewed by: martin75082 on 7/24/2007 5:30:47 AM
Reviewed by: dbarrett on 7/17/2007 5:37:32 PM
like sitting in the back of a hot box car going through texas. You're happy when you get to the end but the ride is painful---in so many ways.
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