Alpha Dog
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Stars: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: A hypothetical re-creation of the crime that made a Californian pot dealer (Hirsch) one of the youngest men to end up on the FBI's most-wanted list.

THE BUZZ: Early reviews pretty much agree that Alpha Dog will succeed in bringing a horrific crime perpetrated by a dispicable sleaze to a young, naive audience. Jesse James Hollywood, here played by Emilie Hirsch as "Johnny Truelove," was captured by police early last year, though he was still at-large when Nick Cassavetes began production on this film. In a move that must violate some legal precedent, the writer-director was granted access to the case files while he was crafting his screenplay. Universal picked up the film after New Line Cinema and producer Sidney Kimmel reportedly disagreed on how the film should me marketed, as whether it should be a limited or wide release. The teaser trailer (second version) is available here.