Half Nelson
Secrets don't let go
Half Nelson (2006)
Timing:
1:47 (107 min)
6.641/10
830
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6.869/10
34453
34453
7.1/10
95000
95000
Country
Production
Genre
Drama
Budget
$700 000
Revenue
$4 616 941
Director
Actors
Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Jeff Lima, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Tina Holmes, Nathan Corbett, Tyra Kwao-Vovo, Rosemary Ledee, Tristan Mack Wilds
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Anna Boden, Lynette Howell Taylor, Rosanne Korenberg, Alex Orlovsky, Jamie Patricof, Paul S. Mezey, Charles Corwin, Doug Dey, Scott London, Clara Markowicz
Operator
Andrij Parekh
Composer
Artist
Audition
Eyde Belasco
Editing
Short description
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was shot in 23 days and finished one day ahead of schedule.
- The script called for the main character to be around thirty-five years old, but the filmmakers changed this detail, as the lead actor, Ryan Gosling, was 25 at the time of filming.
- All scenes in the film, except for the "still life" scenes in the main character's apartment, were shot using a "handheld camera" technique.
- During the filming of the bar scenes, Rachel McAdams stopped by the set. The filmmakers were short on extras, and McAdams joined the shoot to help create the illusion of a crowd and, consequently, the busyness of the establishment's staff, but all scenes with her participation were cut from the film during editing.
- The film is named after a wrestling hold in which one arm is slipped under the opponent's armpit and pressure is applied to their neck and the back of their head.
- A month before filming began, Ryan Gosling moved to New York to fully immerse himself in his character's life. He lived in a small apartment in Brooklyn and followed an eighth-grade teacher named David Easton around.
- The scene in which the main character, played by Ryan Gosling, picks up Frank the cat, played by Anthony Mackie, was not in the script. During filming, Gosling simply saw a stray cat and picked it up. Considering that his character had recently lost a cat, the filmmakers decided that this scene would fit well and left it in the film.
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