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Alpha Dog (2006)
R (US) | Germany, USA | English | 122 min
Directed by: Nick Cassavetes
6.9
1999, Claremont, California. Middle-class 20somethings talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. On impulse, Johnny and a couple of pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother Zach. Zach's OK with it, figuring that his brother will pay the debt soon. Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Is Zach in danger?
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1999, Claremont, California. Middle-class 20somethings talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. On impulse, Johnny and a couple of pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother Zach. Zach's OK with it, figuring that his brother will pay the debt soon. Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Is Zach in danger?
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Release Date
USA
(Sundance Film Festival)
2006-01-27
USA
(Hollywood, California) (premiere)
2007-01-03
Israel
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2007-01-11
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Also Known As (A.K.A.)
Alpha Dog
(Original title)
Juegos prohibidos
Argentina
Alpha Dog
Australia
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Parent Guide
Sex & Nudity
Severe
A young man asks another young man if he wants to suck another man's cock because he loves him and he replies no, He then calls him fag and a homo.
The "f" word is used sexually and the guys throw male genital-related banter back and forth at each other.
There is a waitress in small shorts and a man comments, "Look at the caboose on that one," adding that he'd knock the bottom out of that, with his friend joking that he's too old for that.
Various rap songs have sexually related lyrics or innuendo, such as disappearing like the Loch Ness Monster (innuendo for sex).
A teenager is kissing a girl in a bathroom, all as two other girls come on to a kid (having previously told him that being a kidnapping victim is "hot").
A woman tells a young man, "I want to suck your d*ck" and then goes down toward his crotch in a restaurant, with another guy with them enthusiastically saying it's going to happen now. But all that occurs is some playful and drunken (and/or drug induced) kissing and cavorting.
A fairly graphic scene of a man and a woman having sex doggie style; he's seen thrusting and moaning. She is seen nude later, covering her front with a pillow. Her bare back, buttocks and side of her breast can be seen. No male nudity.
Two women undress and jump to a pool , one woman Is topless AND the other completely nude female Full frontal nudity seen (no Male Full frontal as usual). A 15 year old kid joins the swimming pool and plays Marco polo with a blindfold. His blindfold is removed and he kisses the woman.
A young man returns home to find his father and two women kissing and caressing each other. (women are wearing bras and underwear) The father invites his son to join them. No male or female nudity shown.
A woman asks a man if he'd like to have sex. They undress and climb into bed (we see her bare breasts and buttocks and his bare buttocks). They kiss as she makes a remark about his lack of arousal and moves under the sheets where slurping and moaning are heard. They argue and the scene ends.
A man and a woman kiss. Several others dance seductively (lifting shirts to reveal their abdomens) and also kiss.
A butt is shown (Rear male nudity)
A young woman is pulled off a toilet by men barging into the bathroom. (Her bare buttocks are visible.)
The "nudity" of male actors is not as extensive as the nudity of the female actors in both the extent of nudity and the frequency.
A woman tells a man that she wants to perform oral sex on him.
A teenager asks his female friend's mother if she's going to "go down" on her husband for their anniversary, making the female to male oral sex gesture while also asking about giving the husband a "little tube steak boogie." Later, the teen returns home to hear sexual sounds and her mother then answers the door, all out of breath, complaining about the one night she wanted alone to make love to her husband.
There are several references to a young man performing oral sex on another man. (He's told to do so but he doesn't.)
Minor sexual references about the size of a man's penis. A few remarks about homosexuality.
Violence & Gore
Moderate
After a person tapes another person's hands together and then places tape over their mouth, a third person hits the bound one over the head with a shovel, causing him to fall into a pre-dug, shallow grave. The third person then uses a small TEC - 9 Pistol to shoot the victim, killing him (we see some bloody bullet holes in the clothing and blood spreading behind him in the dirt.
A young man and his girlfriend come in the house, the parents take her away while she goes crazy and swears at her parents. A father twice slaps his son in frustration and then pushes him back against a wall (trying to get him to say what he's done with the stolen boy).
While abducting a young boy with a young man, Two guys chase the target and the teen runs another guy pushes the teen to the ground, hits him and then he and the man drag him back to their van. We later see them bind and gag him with duct tape.
A man slams another at a wall and strangles him
A man gets physical with people at a party, pushing one backwards. When a young woman gets after him for that, he punches her to the floor. That causes various partygoers to try to attack them, but he easily repels them with brutal punches and kicks (including stomping down on his last victim, just out of the camera shot), even after someone bashes him over the head with a bottle, drawing blood.
Two men fight, one grabs him around the neck with something and then smashes him down through a glass coffee table. They struggle with one then knocking another away before driving him through a sliding glass door out to the pool where he hits him and tries to drown him in the pool (by holding his head underwater as a dog bites on him). Others then pull one away, The other pulls a gun on him, and he challenges him to shoot it (He does, but only off to the side).
A gang break into the latter's motel room with an ax (used to smash into the wall), guns, and one throws a planter through a sliding glass door to get in. The person living there grabs his gun and hides behind a door, but the lead intruder and the others leave after robbing and defacing the place.
A man who is a fugitive goes to his neighbor's yard and begs him to find a place to go and he holds on the neighbor's shirt. The neighbor says that he is all alone now and a cop car reaches the street. The man tries to run away from the cops. Aggressive police with guns chase and surround the man who tries to run away.
In a TV at someone's house rap-based music video shows a person shooting two others in the back running from the thugs, resulting in very bloody wounds (seen in slow motion).
A woman slaps a man across the face several times, and then squeezes his face while threatening him. A woman slaps a young man across the face. A young woman shoves a young man into a wall and they argue bitterly. Several people barge into a bathroom where a young woman is using the toilet, and one young man pulls her off the toilet and shoves her out the door.
After hearing that a kid has a black belt in some sort of martial arts, a man gets him in a headlock and won't let go. The kid finally breaks free, Frankie half-playfully wants to spar, and so he kicks him to the floor, and then again back into an empty bathtub (The man isn't hurt or mad).
Profanity
Severe
Sexual slang ("faggot", "pussy"). References to sex acts ("suck cock", "dildo up the ass").
A lot of racist dialogue from white characters
In a home movie, someone puts the middle finger.
A lot of profanity don't watch if you are sensitive to profanity
62 "s" words (shit) some phrases are said with it
23 slang terms using male genitals ("cock," "cocksucker," "dick"), 4 using female ones ("cunt" and "pussy"), what sounded like one for breasts ("tit"),
18 asses (6 used with "hole")
4 uses of hells, - 2 craps, - 1 S.O.B., - 9 uses of "G-damn,"
6 of "Swear to God," 2 each of "God" and "Jesus" and 1 use each of "Christ" and "Jesus Christ."
There is a LOT of profanity
1 Use of the N word used by a White Character
367 "f" words (26 used with "mother," 6 used sexually as is the term "laid"),
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
Severe
A woman says she's "Exing," we see drug paraphernalia in several scenes, and a young man and a 15-year-old boy take care of marijuana plants in a man's backyard.
A man smokes a cigarette and drinks alcohol out of the bottle, a young woman and a 15-year-old boy chug an alcoholic beverage, and people drink wine with dinner.
Young men and young women smoke cigarettes in many scenes, and men smoke cigarettes in many scenes. A man talks about another man's son being a drug dealer and we hear that a man is an alcoholic.
A drug junkie appears high on crack or meth in several scenes and starts going crazy at the office.
A man, a kid and some young women smoke pot from a bong, while also drinking beer.
A girl chugs a beer or wine cooler in one long gulp, adding that they should see her with a beer bong. An underage kid tries to do the same, but isn't as good/experienced as her (the other young woman with them also drinks).
A man wants another to "smoke a doobie" or have a drink with him, but the man declines the offer. The next day, the dad states, "I'm hung-over like a bitch." Later, the man shows a kid that his dad grows pot.
A kid, who's 15, hears his parents arguing, including his mom asking her husband, "Why do you have to be such a f*cking p*ssy?" His father then shows that they found his pot bong, leading to some arguing and the kid then leaves the house.
A man and two women have beer in front of them and smoke pot.
A man, and his brother who's a kid, and a girl drink beer, while the kid and the girl smoke pot. The man later drunk-drives to return to his brother (who's also drunk/high) back home.
During an interview, the questioner asks Sonny about Johnny being a major drug dealer. Sonny disputes that, saying his son sold some weed, with the interviewer saying it was reported the boy was a major distributor who got his goods from Sonny.
A man gets a beer for a kid and himself from a convenience store (in brown paper bags) and they later litter those bottles in a yard.
A young man holds a bong, talks of being high, and then takes a hit.
A young man states he's going to roll "the biggest f*cking joint."
Three people at a table talk. A young woman smokes from a pipe, a 15 year old drinks beer and a grown man smokes.
A grown woman comments on her son being stoned out of his mind.
In a restaurant, a group of people have unfinished glasses of beer on the table. One woman and one man is seen smoking together including young men.
A man on drugs gets called in the office and talks to his boss about his drug history. The man tells him to do a drug test but the man starts flipping out.
A man drinks a glass of beer from a motel balcony after finishing, he throws the glass away.
A man buys a bag of liquor to a 15 year old boy and offers him a cigarette. He replies "I don't smoke". The man says its good for him and the kid smokes along with the man.
A man in a neighborhood throws two cigarettes on someone's lawn.
A young woman blows on a bong and a 15 year old kid drinks next to her.
A young woman chugs a whole bottle of red beer down her throat in front of a 15 year old kid.
A 15 year old chugs a whole red beer bottle down his throat to impress two girls
A 15-year-old boy smokes drugs, drinks alcohol and smokes cigarettes in several scenes, and young men and young women smoke drugs and drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes in many scenes throughout the movie.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
Severe
This is based on a real life FBI drug kidnapping and murder of a 15 year old boy depressing and has an historical accuracy of 95 %
Sad and not a happy movie, the tone is rather partying and rap
The murder of an innocent young kid is very upsetting as he begs for his life to be spared. It may cause anger or sadness or both, What's even more upsetting is that the killing happened in real life.
A kid runs away from home, young people from a van kidnap a young kid and hold him for ransom, they threaten to kill the kid if the drug dealer doesn't pay the money he owns. At the end, it all breaks down. People are getting arrested and put to life. This movie makes you want for this kid to go home but he never comes home.
Extensive use of drugs and slang some characters yell it or act crazy
The intensity goes from chill, then when it comes to the end, it all goes down when most of the gang gets arrested and one fugitive walks away free but later he is implied to be arrested.
The killing preparation might frighten some viewers
A mother, having gained a lot of weight presumably from being depressed, grieves and lashes out during an interview about her son's murder (saying that when he died, so did she). There's then some talk about her trying to kill herself three times following that murder.
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