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 -- ...

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 ...

Two years ago, a 19-minute movie about a middle-school student and a troubled teacher won the best short film award at the Sundance Film Festival. Then, just a few months ago, an expanded version of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The late, great Roger Ebert gave this indie drama starring a young Ryan Gosling a perfect four-star rating, and it's easy to see why.

An inner-city junior-high-school teacher with a drug problem (Ryan Gosling) may have his own lessons to learn when he befriends one of his students (Shareeka Epps) in this independent drama.