Alpha Dog
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Genre: Teen, Crime Fiction, Biographical film, Docudrama, Crime Drama, Drama
Year: 2006
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Ben Foster, Dominique Swain, Lukas Haas, Amber Heard, Chris Marquette, Holt McCallany, Amanda Seyfried, Shawn Hatosy, Harry Dean Stanton, Olivia Wilde, Vincent Kartheiser, Anton Yelchin, David Thornton, Chuck Pacheco, Heather Wahlquist, Matthew Barry, Paul Johansson, Fernando Vargas, Alex Kingston, Alan Thicke, Alex Solowitz
Alpha Dog is a 2007 American crime drama film written and directed by Nick Cassavetes, first screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2006, with a wide release the following year on January 12, 2007. The film is based on the true story of the kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz and related events in 2000. It portrays the involvement of Jesse James Hollywood, a young middle-class drug dealer in California. The film stars Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Shawn Hatosy, Ben Foster, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Anton Yelchin with Harry Dean Stanton, Sharon Stone and Bruce Willis.
Alpha Dog is based on events that took place in 2000 and characters are given fictional names. The film is set in November 1999. It tells the story of Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch), a young drug dealer in Claremont, California and his circle of friends, which includes Frankie Ballenbacher (Justin Timberlake), Tiko "TKO" Martinez (Fernando Vargas), and Elvis Schmidt (Shawn Hatosy). The film demonstrates internal gang dynamics and social context that contribute to the events leading to kidnapping and murder.
The film starts with all the main characters, suspects, the victim,
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