Half Nelson (2006) on Netflix
Dan Dunne teaches history and coaches girls basketball at a Brooklyn middle school, where he keeps his cocaine use hidden. His student Drey finds him freebasing in a locker room.
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Plot summary
Dan Dunne teaches history at a Brooklyn middle school and coaches the girls basketball team, and he prefers dialectics to the standard curriculum. Away from school he uses cocaine. His student Drey, thirteen, plays on his team; her mother works long hours as an EMT, her father is absent, and her brother Mike is in prison after selling drugs for Frank, a neighborhood dealer. Drey relies on Dan for rides home. She finds him freebasing in the school locker room, and a friendship grows between them that the few who know of it call inappropriate.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Half Nelson (2006)
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- At 26, Ryan Gosling's performance as drug-addicted teacher Dan Dunne earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, making him the seventh-youngest nominee the category had ever had up to that point.
