Alpha Dog

Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Emile Hirsch, Anthon Yelchin
Directed by: Nick Cassavetes
Screenplay by: Nick Cassavetes
Release Date: January 12th, 2007
Running Time: 117 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive drug use and language, strong violence, sexuality, nudity.
Box Office: $15,242,450 (US total)
Studio: Universal Pictures

Tagline: How did a crime with this many witnesses go so far?

Versatile filmmaker Nick Cassavates directs an impressive group of both young and veteran performers in Alpha Dog—inspired by actual events—a film that follows three fateful days when the lives of a group of Southern California teens suddenly dead-ended.

In Alpha Dog, Cocky and headstrong Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) is living the thug wannabe’s American dream as a mid-level drug dealer in a comfortable sector of the sprawling, privileged neighborhoods in Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Valley.

For Johnny and his crew of bros, wannabes and suck-ups—landlocked in their suburban existence and burdened with too much time—their existence is a heady blur of partying and looking for the next thrill.

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