Stephanie Bast

In the upcoming film Half Nelson, Ryan Gosling plays a Brooklyn junior high school teacher named Dan Dunne, who inspires his students while simultaneously destructing his own persona. In the film, directed byAnna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Dunne finds innovative ways to inspire his 13 and 14-year-old students to think for themselves. However, at the same time, the “brilliant” teacher ….