Alpha Dog
Bruce Willis, Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake
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.
DVD Released: May 1, 2007
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June 26, 2009A good but sad story with great performances all around make this movie! Ben Foster can do no wrong! I only had a couple of problems with this film, it left me with some unanswered questions but they're only minor things. This was a good film though.
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June 4, 2009A lot better than I expected with a cast featuring Justin Timberlake. Ben Foster I think landed on my favorite actors list after this preformance.
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March 1, 2009This is the sort of movie you watch after you get a call from your sister and her drunk friend at 2 and pick them up and realize you're too energetic now to fall asleep but don't feel like doing anything remotely intellectually stimulating. I only watched this for Emile Hirsch wh... ...( read more )
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February 13, 2009The true life story of a young drug dealer who kidnaps the younger brother of a fellow gangster in order to make him pay his debts. As grim as that sounds, most of the film's light tone and constant frat style partying makes it look more like Almost Famous with wannabe gangsters.... ...( read more )
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February 7, 2009"One crime. 3 days. 38 witnesses."
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 is worth watching alone for the performance of Ben Foster... ...( read more )
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January 19, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
January 13, 2007
Kurt Loder, MTV
There are in fact no bad performances in this picture. The events depicted are often ugly and sometimes repulsive, but Cassavetes never flinches from depicting them fully full review
January 12, 2007
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Recovering from the Harlequin bathos of The Notebook, writer-director Nick Cassavetes directs this bogus-homeboy scenario as though his street cred depended on it. full review
January 11, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Cassavetes -- a sometime actor himself -- doesn't seem to understand actors at all. From the finished product, it looks as if his preferred method of guiding his actors is to egg them on rather than n... full review
January 11, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Alpha Dog is almost a sociological study of a youthful culture awash in freedom and steeped in violence, drugs, casual sex and offensive language. It also shines a light on parents who have abdicated ... full review
January 11, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
There's more voyeurism going on here, and less insight into a certain culture (the young and the wasted), than the filmmakers would probably admit to, but the performances are scarily real, and the ou... full review
January 11, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rather than turn the camera away when disaster strikes, [director Cassavetes] keeps his suffering characters in close, uninterrupted focus, pushing us squarely into their pain. full review
January 8, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Timberlake walks off with the movie. Too bad it's not worth stealing. full review
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November 7, 2008Having just seen this, I have to say I was disappointed (sorely; read my 1.5 star review!)... Justin Timberlake proved himself a potentially strong young actor in Craig Brewer's brilliant "Black Snake Moan" (2007) but then managed to make me think that's a fluke on the basis of this... Junk, junk, junk...
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August 15, 2008Why has everyone got it in for Justin. He done a great job, well worth seeing! I have seen this movie about 10 times, I love it!
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December 5, 2007this movie was awesome. it was surprising but it was so awesome....
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September 30, 2007Even though that pretty boy faggot retard timberlake is in it, it's still a pretty good movie.
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August 24, 2007Justin Timberlake was surprisingly good in this movie. Movie was raw and gritty, my only knock on this movie is that many of the characters were not developed enough to really care about the outcome.
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