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Alpha Dog
The drama of violence and extremism is revived through drug dealer Johnny Troylov, who threatens Jake Mazurski, a case that seems to be in large sums for Johnny. New crime begins with Jake breaking into Johnny's house in response to him, but Juni returns to the kidnapping of 15-year-old Jack, Jack's brother. All these pursuits and events seem more violent when Johnny appoints Frankie to be Zach's pursuers and develop a fraternal friendship. Here the pursuers talk about things that may not be good under the FBI's hunt and things may get out of control.
3 September 1963, New York City, New York, USA
29 October 1980, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3 October 1984, Stuart, Florida, USA
31 January 1981, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
16 April 1976, West Hollywood, California, USA
7 December 1977, Oxnard, California, USA
23 May 1977, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
12 June 1953, Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
26 January 1964, Spokane, Washington, USA
1 March 1947, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
April 20, 2007
Nick Cassavetes' film combines an aimless ramble through juvenile depravity in the affluent suburbs of LA and a quite disturbing evocation of the true-life murder of an adolescent boy in 1999.
January 12, 2007
[Alpha Dog is] intermittently bemused or tragic, but utterly lacking a conscience or a point of view.
January 13, 2007
Alpha Dog is no travesty, but I would trade 95 percent accuracy for, say, 25 percent insight.
April 20, 2007
Its originality lies in the fact that it depicts white middle-class kids on the loose, calling their women bitches and listening endlessly to violent, misogynist and homophobic black rap.
June 25, 2007
A lackluster teenage true-crime tale.
August 10, 2007
Cassavetes' film is pure Hollywood fiction and sensationalism mixed with some sense of reality, but hell I enjoyed it a great deal...
February 05, 2007
Justin Timberlake has what it takes to be a genuine movie star.
April 20, 2007
Stylishly and thoughtfully directed by Nick Cassavetes, Alpha Dog is occasionally chilling, but always absorbing.
February 03, 2007
The worst movie of the year.
January 12, 2007
Cassavetes starts to lose the plot at the precise moment he starts keeping exact track of it.
April 19, 2007
A movie which has been put together with occasional skill but lacks a compelling reason to exist.
November 06, 2010
This inspired-by-reality tale is essentially an emotional snuff film. It's the kind of misguided effort a middle-aged director indulges in when he wants to reinvent himself as edgy.