Ryan Gosling plays a high school teacher battling a substance-abuse problem. Shareeka Epps is a lonely young girl about to make a choice she may regret. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that changes both their lives. Ryan Fleck directs. (104 min, R)
Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/thinkfilm/halfnelson/trailer/
This article appears in Feb 21-27, 2007.
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