We Own the Night (2007)

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• Joaquin Phoenix as Bobby Green
• Mark Wahlberg as Joseph Grusinsky
• Eva Mendes as Amanda Juarez
• Robert Duvall as Deputy Chief Albert 'Bert' Grusinsky
• Alex Veadov
• Antoni Corone
• Tony Musante
• Katie Condidorio
• Burton Perez
• Edward Conlon

Movie Story

Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has turned his back on the family business. The popular manager of El Caribe, the legendary Russian-owned nightclub in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, he has changed his last name and concealed his connection to a long line of distinguished New York cops. For Bobby, every night is a party, as he greets friends and customers or dances with his beautiful Puerto Rican girlfriend, Amada (Eva Mendes), in a haze of cigarette smoke and disco music.

But it's 1988, and New York City's drug trade is escalating. Bobby tries to keep a friendly distance from the Russian gangster who is operating out of the nightclub – a gangster who is being targeted by his brother, Joseph (Mark Wahlberg), an up-and-coming NYPD officer, and his father, Burt (Robert Duvall), the legendary deputy chief of police.

Columbia Pictures' and 2929 Productions' "We Own the Night," an emotional crime thriller about a man who has chosen to hide his past only to discover that he has to confront an inevitable future, takes its title from the motto of the 1980s-era NYPD street crimes unit. Written and directed by James Gray ("The Yards," "Little Odessa").

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Reader's Reviews

a very good film

posted by Josep Louis. on Nov 10, 2008

Good story about family ties and job conflicts, too drawn out and slow in many parts...

posted by X5Babe on Jan 02, 2009