Ryan Fleck

[5] Ryan Gosling stars as an inner-city junior high teacher with a drug habit. When one of his students finds him in a crack-induced stupor on the bathroom floor, the two strike up an unlikely relationship. Gosling and the girl (Shareeka Epps) are both very good and writer/directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Captain Marvel) keep it real — real far from sentimental, that is. …