Alpha Dog (2006)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 77 | Rotten: 65
A glossy yet unflinching portrait of violent, hedonistic teenagers. Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone chew the scenery, while Justin Timberlake gives a noteworthy performance.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 20
A glossy yet unflinching portrait of violent, hedonistic teenagers. Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone chew the scenery, while Justin Timberlake gives a noteworthy performance.
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A drug dealer moves on to bigger crimes in an effort to settle a score with disastrous results in this drama inspired by actual events. Though barely out of his teens, Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) has already built a lucrative career for himself selling drugs -- he has his own home, a luxury car, and posse of friends who do double duty as his crew, including Elvis (Shawn Hatosy), Frankie (Justin Timberlake), and Tiko (Fernando Vargas). While life at Johnny's house is usually a constant party
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Cast
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Emile Hirsch
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Justin Timberlake
Frankie Ballenbacher -
Bruce Willis
Sonny Truelove -
Sharon Stone
Olivia Mazursky -
Ben Foster
Jake Mazursky -
Anton Yelchin
Zack Mazursky -
Alex Kingston
Tiffy Hartunian -
Harry Dean Stanton
Cosmo Gadabeeti -
Alex Solowitz
Bobby "911" Tiko -
Fernando Vargas
"TKO" Martinez -
Olivia Wilde
Angela Holden -
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Lukas Haas
Buzz Fecske -
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David Thornton
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Christopher George Marque...
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Vincent Kartheiser
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Dominique Swain
Susan Hartunian -
Shawn Hatosy
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Heather Wahlquist
Wanda Haynes -
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All Critics (144) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (78) | Rotten (66) | DVD (18)
A movie which has been put together with occasional skill but lacks a compelling reason to exist.
Top CriticJustin Timberlake has what it takes to be a genuine movie star.
The worst movie of the year.
Alpha Dog is no travesty, but I would trade 95 percent accuracy for, say, 25 percent insight.
Cassavetes starts to lose the plot at the precise moment he starts keeping exact track of it.
Alpha Dog, a tale of a group of drug-fueled teenagers, is gritty to the point of painful abrasion.
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.
Timberlake stars in fact-based drug drama.
Cassavetes' film is pure Hollywood fiction and sensationalism mixed with some sense of reality, but hell I enjoyed it a great deal...
A lackluster teenage true-crime tale.
Stylishly and thoughtfully directed by Nick Cassavetes, Alpha Dog is occasionally chilling, but always absorbing.
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.
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.
It's Beverly Hills 90210 on crystal meth as a gang of posh potheads lose the plot when a kidnapping goes wrong.
The movie may lose its way in the last 15 minutes but everything leading up to that point is gripping, edge-of-your-seat stuff.
Lengthy and often off-hot topic, this is still a gripping saga with stand-out turns from Timberlake, Hirsch and kid-in-the-spotlight Yelchin.
You know you're in trouble the second you take a look at Bruce Willis's fake liver spots.
Overall though, it's a messy, superficial affair: it lacks focus, shifts uneasily in tone, and shoehorns in star names (Sharon Stone, Bruce Willis) to little effect.
True, Alpha Dog is a film with no manners. But it has great nerve. What's truly impressive is how the splintered story is buried by individual performances.
Audience Reviews for Alpha Dog
Super Reviewer
Its based on true events and is about the kidnapping of a young boy he is the brother of a druggie who owes money to this drug dealer and things just escalate to far and things just go from bad to worse.
Great cast great acting, for me its just too slow with not alot happening inbewtween the the beginning and the end so maybe not for everyone but worth the watch.
Super Reviewer
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- Jake Mazursky: This is just the beginning, bitch. This is lil shooter. You're dead, homes. You hear me, you fucking dwarf! I know where your mother lives I know where your brother lives, I know where your papi lives! You wanna play some games motherfucker!
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- Johnny Truelove: You ever have that dream: the one where you did something... You don't know why, but you can never go back?
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- Angela Holden: So you're like... ransom.
- Zack Mazursky: It's ok. Its like another story to tell my grandchildren
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