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Release Date: Jan 12, 2007; Rated: R; DVD Release Date: May 01, 2007; Genre: Drama; With: Emile Hirsch and Justin Timberlake; Distributor: Universal
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The title, the club-mix score, the scenery-masticating moments — too much about this true story of a 15-year-old killed in an upper-middle-class drug war feels sensationalized. Writer-director Nick Cassavetes is good with actors (Justin Timberlake is actually pretty effective...if you can forget that he's Justin Timberlake), but action-movie fight sequences and three-ways in pools obscure any sense of tragedy in Alpha Dog. EXTRAS In a making-of, Cassavetes calls his film ''an exploration of loss'' and a producer discusses the ''heartbreaking'' nature of the crime. Why did none of that come through? C+
Posted May 04, 2007
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