Alpha Dog
Drug trafficker Johnny Troylov returns to threaten Jake Mazurski in a seemingly money-related case for Johnny, the disastrous man. Joni returns by storming into Johnny's house, but Juni returns to kidnap Zack, 15, Jack's brother. It's violent and exciting chases that begin with Johnny, who appoints Frankie to be Zach's pursuers and develop a fraternal friendship. The events may then change under the FBI's hunt and the presence of these gangs in the internationally banned tabloid.
29 December 1975, Frederick, Maryland, USA
12 June 1953, Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
25 May 1967, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 November 1992, California, USA
16 January 1967, San Francisco, California, USA
3 December 1985, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
23 May 1977, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
13 March 1985, Palms, California, USA
4 December 1983, Denver, Colorado, USA
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.
June 25, 2007
A lackluster teenage true-crime tale.
February 03, 2007
The worst movie of the year.
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.
January 12, 2007
Cassavetes starts to lose the plot at the precise moment he starts keeping exact track of it.
February 05, 2007
Justin Timberlake has what it takes to be a genuine movie star.
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.
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...
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.
April 19, 2007
A movie which has been put together with occasional skill but lacks a compelling reason to exist.
April 20, 2007
Stylishly and thoughtfully directed by Nick Cassavetes, Alpha Dog is occasionally chilling, but always absorbing.
