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THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL COSUMTES AND SHOES SCREEN WORN BY
EMILE HIRSCH AS JOHNNY TRUELOVE DURING FILMING OF THE HIT MOVIE: "ALPHA DOG".
RECEIVED DIRECTLY FROM THE SET WITH COA FROM SIDNEY KIMMEL ENTERTAINMENT.
STUDIO WARDEROBE TAG "JOHNNY":
HAT:
ROYAL BLUE 59/50 LA BASEBALL CAP.
SHIRT
HAWAIIAN PRINT SSCA BLUE WITH PURPLE IRIS FLOWERS REYN SPPONER.
SHOES:
WHITE LEATHER HIGH TOP ICE-UP SNEAKERS WITH GREEN "PUMA" SWOOSH.
JEANS:
LIGHT DENIM AGED WASH CARPENTER STYLE "LEVIS-STRAUSS".
STORYLINE:
Set in November 1999, (The real murder took place in August of 2000) Alpha Dog tells the story of Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch), a young drug dealer in his hometown of Claremont, California. Despite being only 19 years old, Johnny owns his own house and car.
Johnny has a circle of loyal friends, including Frankie Ballenbacher (Justin Timberlake) and Elvis Schmidt (Shawn Hatosy), the latter of whom does household chores for Johnny to pay his debt to him, but is constantly ridiculed by Johnny and Frankie for being spineless.
Johnny's father, Sonny Truelove (Bruce Willis), supplies his son with the marijuana which his son both sells and personally uses.
At one of his many parties, Johnny meets with Jake Mazursky (Ben Foster), one of Johnny's friends and part-time distributors.
When Jake fails to collect a drug debt for Johnny, they fight over the money which culminates in Johnny pulling a pistol on Jake and kicking him out of his house after Mazursky gets the upper hand in the brawl. Johnny decides to continue the fight by getting Jake fired from his job.
As an ex-con, Jake's opportunity to find another job is slim, and he becomes incessantly angry with Johnny. In retaliation, Jake and several armed friends break into and trash Johnny's house, as well as steal his television. Although armed, Johnny does not confront them, instead hides until they leave.
Late in the evening Jake's younger, 15-year-old half-brother Zach (Anton Yelchin) visits Jake who is an orphan, who is with his girlfriend. Zach drinks with them and tells of his frustration caused by his parents, who treat him like a small child. Zach's mother, upset, phones and tells Zach to come home.
Jake drives a drunken Zach home, much to the anger of his parents. The following day, Zach's mother finds a bong in Zach's room, causing Zach and his parents to argue. Zach sneaks out of the house shortly after.
Johnny and his friends want to take revenge on Jake, but he is not home. They see Zach and kidnap him, hoping to use him as leverage to make Jake pay his debt. Zach is restrained at first, but soon this is undone, because it is unnecessary: Zach starts enjoying the situation.
He is then taken to Frankie's house in Palm Springs, California and begins to feel he is amongst friends and enjoys the break from home life with his over-protective mother.
He is given alcohol and drugs and loses his virginity in a threesome. He is confident that Jake will soon pay his debt, and that he will then be released.
Johnny, worried about the legal problems kidnapping poses, calls his father's lawyer. Johnny is told that they can get life sentences for the kidnapping. Johnny asks Frankie to kill Zach.
Frankie rejects the offer, after which Johnny claims that it was just a joke. However, Frankie suspects that it was serious and talks about it to one of the girls while they are hanging out at his dad's house.
The girl tries to warn her mother but she is on ecstacy and having sex with her husband at the time having no time to listen.
Johnny offers Elvis a way to pay back his debt, kill Zach. Elvis agrees and Frankie supplies shovels and duct tape, but refuses to help Elvis dig a grave. Elvis takes Frankie's friend Keith Stratten (Chris Marquette) along, pretending to give him a ride home. Reluctantly, Keith cooperates.
While this is happening, Frankie offers Zach an opportunity to escape, but without explaining his concern. Zach does not feel in danger, and stays.
Sonny Truelove and family friend Cosmo (Harry Dean Stanton) show up at Johnny's girlfriend's house in an attempt to stop the situation from escalating. They urge Johnny to release Zach and that they will work to get him a short sentence, a prospect Johnny finds unbearable.
Later that night, Elvis, Frankie and Keith take Zach in a car, pretending that they are taking him home but instead drive him to the shallow grave.
Upon arriving at the site, two hikers walk past the group and Keith hugs Zach and goes to wait in the car. When they reach the gravesite Zach becomes more concerned but Frankie promises him that everything will be okay.
As his mouth is wrapped with tape Zach gets more and more worried but Frankie gives him constant assurances that he will be fine. Suddenly, Elvis hits the back of Zach's head with a shovel, then proceeds to kill him with automatic fire from a Tec 9.
The epilogue shows the after-effects of the crime. Zach's mother Olivia (Sharon Stone) is interviewed; she talks about her suicide attempts and the loss that she has experienced from her son's murder. All of the gang members are currently serving time, with Elvis on death row.
BIOGRAPHY OF EMILE HIRSCH:
Emile Davenport Hirsch (born March 13, 1985) is an American television and film actor.
He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television films and series, and became known as a film actor after roles in Lords of Dogtown, The Emperor's Club, The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog and Into the Wild. Hirsch is slated to appear in the upcoming film Speed Racer.
Emile Hirsch was born in Topanga, California, the son of Margaret (née Davenport), a visual artist and teacher who designed pop-up books, and David Hirsch, an industrial consultant, manager, and producer. He has an older sister, Jenny, who introduced him to acting.
Hirsch was raised in Los Angeles, California and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lived with his mother after his parents divorced. He attended Paul Revere Middle School and the Academy of Music at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles.
Hirsch began acting at the age of eight, appearing in minor roles on television shows or made-for-television films, including Kindred: the Embraced; Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and NYPD Blue.
He made his film debut with the 2002 drama, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, where he starred opposite Kieran Culkin in the story of two Catholic school boys.
His next role was in the prep school drama, The Emperor's Club, which was released later in 2002. Both films received generally positive reviews, but performed only moderately at the box office.
Hirsch was subsequently cast opposite Elisha Cuthbert in the 2004 teen comedy, The Girl Next Door, and as a result gained renown among teenage audiences. The Mudge Boy, an independent film that he had starred in before making Girl Next Door, was given a limited release in the summer of 2004.
Hirsch next appeared in Imaginary Heroes, a drama about a dysfunctional family, which received a limited release in February 2005 but failed to reach a wider audience, despite mostly positive reviews.
In 2005, Hirsch starred in Lords of Dogtown; the film, about a number of well-known skaters of the 1970s, was released on June 3, 2005, but ultimately performed poorly at the box office. He subsequently appeared in Alpha Dog, a dark drama in which he played a character based on real-life drug dealer Jesse James Hollywood; the film was shot in 2004 and released on January 12, 2007.
Hirsch consulted with Hollywood's real life father before playing the role, and has said that he felt "pretty afraid in my bones most of the time" while filming because of the film's raw characters and dialogue.
Hirsch next played adventurer Christopher McCandless in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed adventure-drama Into the Wild, released on September 21, 2007.
He lost 40 pounds for the role and was noted in reviews as a potential Academy Award nominee for the film, also receiving a Screen Actors Guild nomination for best actor. Hirsch is also filming the lead role in Speed Racer, scheduled for a May 2008 release.
It has been announced that Hirsch is in his final negotiations to star in Gus Van Sant's upcoming Harvey Milk bio-pic Milk.
Hirsch is in talks to play gay rights activist Cleve Jones. Sean Penn is set to play Harvey Milk.
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