Alpha Dog
One crime. 38 witnesses. No way back.
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough.He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer.Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way.When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and hold him hostage.
- Director
- Nick Cassavetes
- Worldwide
- $32M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
28 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and hold him hostage.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Alpha Dog returned 3.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $10M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $32M
- Release date
- Jan 27, 2006
- Runtime
- 2h 2m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom
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