At face value, Alpha Dog — based on a real-life story that’s still waiting for its ending — plays like an amped-up, drugged-out episode of Dragnet. In 2000, a gang of SoCal kids kidnapped and murdered ...

"Alpha Dog" is headed into theaters Friday unless a judge decides differently at the last minute. A tumble into a world of drugs, depravity and murder in Southern California, the film was inspired by ...