I recently rented the movie "Half Nelson". It came out last year and was critically acclaimed. Ryan Gosling was nominated for the best actor Academy Award. And he deserved that nomination. His performance as a caring, innovative teacher who has a drug abuse problem was outstanding. So was the acting job of Shareeka Epps. She played the student who befriended the teacher after discovering his secret while struggling with her own troubles. The movie was hard to watch at times, since I came to care for these characters and had to watch them make decisions that were destructive to their lives. It isn't a fast paced, action filled movie. It is all about these two very different individuals, and how they impacted each other's lives. 
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