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2006

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High school teacher Dan (Ryan Gosling) and quiet teenager Drey (Shareeka Epps) are two lonely souls who wander the planet looking to attach some semblance of meaning to their chaotic lives. Dan teaches Drey in a dilapidated school in Brooklyn, New York. Their relationship is unremarkable until Drey discovers Dan collapsed and .. Read more

Starring	Shareeka Epps, Tina Holmes, Anthony Mackie, Ryan Gosling
Director	Ryan Fleck
Genres	Drama

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- 16 Apr 2007
Ryan Gosling's Dan Dunne is the most inspirational teacher I've seen at the movies since Jack Black in School of Rock. Or at any rate, the most credible. Sure, he splits from the History curriculum to teach dialectics to his class of Angelino eighth graders. Yes, he illustrates his theorem by arm-wrestling the students. But what really sets Mr Dunne apart isn't his unconventional style. It's his manic-depressive streak and raging cocaine habit - both directly attributable to his liberal-leftist Read more
Sugar: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck interview
- 08 Jun 2009
After receiving critical acclaim for the superb Half Nelson back in 2007, Indie directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have returned with the lovingly crafted Sugar. Sugar tells the story of struggling Dominican born Baseball player, Miguel 'Sugar' Santos. Armed with the determination to succeed, Sugar swaps his home town in the Dominican for the US, with varying degrees of success. We spoke to Boden and Fleck about language barriers, baseball and the American Dream. LOVEFiLM: Half Nelson came... Read more
Sugar
- 09 Jun 2009
For a young man growing up in the shanty towns of Dominica, two career opportunities seem the likeliest prospects when it comes to finding work to support the family he soon hopes to have… selling mobile phones is one. Playing baseball is the other. No prizes for guessing which career path 19-year-old Miguel Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) opts for when the US scouts come calling. Miguel – nicknamed “Sugar” – has a peach of a right arm. Along with two dozen of his... Read more
Ryan Gosling explains The Lovely Bones departure
- 30 Oct 2007
Half Nelson star Ryan Gosling has spoken out amid reports he was fired from the set of Peter Jackson's new movie The Lovely Bones. Gosling, who was to star as the father of a murdered girl who watches from heaven as her family cope with their loss, told Parade.com that rather than being replaced because he was difficult to work with, it was more a case of things just not working. "Peter and I tried to make it work and ultimately it just didn't," the website quotes him as saying. " Read more
Eric Bana joins time-travel adaptation
- 18 Apr 2007
Hulk star Eric Bana is to play the male lead in forthcoming movie The Time Traveller's Wife, it emerged today. He is to join Rachel McAdams on the project - a love story about a man with a disorder which causes him to travel through time randomly when in stressful situations. However, he attempts to build a relationship with Clare - played by McAdams - who meets him at various points in each of their lives, but their contact is often brief and the story is a tale of both love and loss. Jeremy... Read more