Half Nelson
Year:2006
Country:USA
Director:Ryan Fleck
Leads:Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Shareeka Epps
Genre:Drama
Runtime:106 min
Rating:14A
Language:English
Half Nelson 
Half Nelson stars Ryan Gosling (The Notebook) as Dan Dunne, an idealistic inner-city junior high school teacher who inspires his 13- and 14-year-olds to examine everything from civil rights to Civil War with a new enthusiasm. Rejecting the standard Civil Rights curriculum in favor of an edgier approach, Dan teaches his students how change works - on both an historical and personal scale. Though Dan can get it together in the classroom, he spends his time outside school on the edge of consciousness, dealing with a serious drug habit.

Ce film met en vedette Ryan Gosling (The Notebook) dans le rôle de Dan Dunne, un jeune enseignant idéaliste d'une école secondaire située au coeur d'une grande ville qui réussit à inspirer ses élèves de 13 et 14 ans à mieux comprendre diverses grandes questions, comme celles des droits de la personne et des conflits armés. Il réussit à insuffler chez eux un nouvel enthousiasme. Faisant fi du programme scolaire traditionnel, il leur fait découvrir, autant d'un point de vue historique que personnel, comment les changements se produisent. Mais hors de la salle de classe et de l'école, Dan a une dure réalité à surmonter: il a un très sérieux problème de drogue.
"At a time when most American movies, studio made or 'independent', seem ever more divorced from anything approximating actual life experience, Half Nelson is so sobering and searingly truthful that watching it feels like being tossed from a calm beach into a raging current."
-- LA Weekly, Scott Foundas

Half Nelson
 
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