A terrific performance by Ryan Gosling is the chief but hardly sole reason to embrace "Half Nelson." Pic avoids melodrama in the potentially hyperbolic tale of a white Brooklyn middle-school teacher ...

Movies about unlikely buddies have inspired writer and director Ryan Fleck, whose latest film, Half Nelson, chronicles the relationship between an inner-city junior-high student and her inspiring -- ...

The film is the story of a Brooklyn, NY public school teacher dealing with addiction (played by Ryan Gosling), who forms an unexpected friendship with one of his troubled students (played by Shareeka ...

Half-Nelson (THINKFilm) has a lot going for it, but it may be remembered as the movie that finally made Ryan Gosling the movie star he deserves to be. The wonderfully named Gosling—he looks like a ...

Up against heavy Hollywood hitters Forest Whitaker, Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, and Peter O'Toole for Best Actor in 2007, relative unknown Ryan Gosling had to have known he didn't stand a chance of ...

Ryan Gosling drips out his words like a shower head in an old apartment building with dismal water pressure. He's the type to start a sentence three different ways and interrupt its progress with a ...

Danny appears to be a relaxed, entertaining teacher who would do anything for his pupils. Yet when the bell rings, the likeable man becomes a drug victim. When one student discovers his secret, Danny ...