Inspired by true events in Southern California, ALPHA DOG tells about a personal feud between two young marijuana dealers that goes terribly wrong. (B, PaPaPa, LLL, VV, SS, NN, AAA, DDD, MMM) Light but undeveloped moral worldview undercut by a presentation of a very hedonistic, pagan lifestyle among a group of teenagers in Southern California that sometimes seems to glamorize their immoral, party lifestyle of drugs, booze, sex, guns, and girls at least 360 mostly strong obscenities, 15 strong profanities, four light profanities, older teenager poops on another older teenager's carpet, and some obscene gestures strong violence includes characters fight, older teenager uses kung fu on a group of partying teenagers to get their attention (knocking several out) with some blood shown, two teenagers fight and crash through glass doors and a picture window, character hits another character with a shovel, and teenager machine-gunned to death in a night scene in washed-out colors with some dark blood shown depicted fornication or sodomy, implied fornication, and 15-year-old boy goes skinny dipping with two nude older teenage girls and they begin kissing before camera fades out (that's the implied fornication), implied oral sex, and crude talk about sex shots of upper female nudity in two or three scenes, shot of rear female nudity, rear male nudity, and upper male nudity lots of alcohol use among underage older teenagers, drunkenness, and one father drinks with his son's friends in restaurant, some of whom may be over 21 (the older youths don't act like they are 21, so it's hard to tell in the movie) very strong drug content includes smoking cigarettes, smoking marijuana, talk about a young group leader selling marijuana all the time (which he apparently uses to rent his own nice house with nice furniture and a big TV), youth bribes younger teenager with marijuana, a father mentions he was using marijuana, parents find a marijuana bong in teenager's room, and boy's father grows marijuana in his backyard garden and two youths harvest it and, stealing, vandalism, violent threats, father helps his murderous drug-dealing son escape the law for a time, kidnapping, extortion, teenager runs away from home, and lying. The good news is that all the bad guys, except for Zach's irresponsible, out-of-control brother, get their just desserts. By mostly taking a non-judgmental attitude, and letting the viewers decide what to think, the movie misses an opportunity to arouse public outrage. Regrettably, it sometimes seems to glamorize the foul-mouthed, party hardy lifestyle of its youths. Sonny decides on the spur of the moment to kidnap Zach and force Jake to pay.ĪLPHA DOG is a harrowing look at the pagan, hedonistic lifestyle of too many American teenagers. Sonny, Frankie and Elvis accidentally run across Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach. When Sonny demands payment, Jake, who's addicted to crystal meth, goes berserk, causing trouble. Another drug dealer, Jake Mazursky, owes Sonny $1,200. The teenagers spend their nights partying and doing imitations of the black "gangsta" rappers who shoot videos full of girls, guns and drug references. The movie follows three days in the lives of a group of teenagers and young adults in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Login or register to get email updates.ALPHA DOG tells about a personal feud between two young marijuana dealers that goes terribly wrong. With it's initial release on January 27th 2006 it made approximately $15.31m at the Box Office. "Alpha Dog" was produced by A-Mark Entertainment and Universal Pictures. This gritty drama is based on the true story of Jesse James Hollywood - one of the youngest men ever to appear on the FBI's Most Wanted list.Ĭertificate: R Pervasive drug use and language, strong violence, sexuality and nudityĪudio: English, Canadian FrenchĬast: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Ben Foster, Anton Yelchin, Shawn Hatosy, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Chris Marquette, Dominique Swain, Fernando Vargas, Paul Johansson, Olivia Wilde, Lukas Haas, Harry Dean Stanton, Alex Kingston, Amanda Seyfried Want to keep forever? Try looking for 'Alpha Dog' on Amazon.ca (paid link) Great news! "Alpha Dog" is available to watch on Netflix in Canada!
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