Alpha Dog
In this drama based on true events, Willis plays Sonny Truelove, father of Johnny Truelove, the leader of a drug ring – played by Emile Hirsch. When one of Johnny’s dealers, Jake Mazursky (played by Ben Foster) runs up a debt, he orchestrates the kidnapping and murder of Jake”s younger half-brother Zack (played by Anton Yelchin) . Director Nick Cassavetes:
I think the film does comment on some of the possible causes for how this situation came to be, one of which is expressed by Bruce Willis very early in the film, that the whole thing is about parenting.