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Mood:
- GloomyRoughSuspensefulCaptivatingTense
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Plot:
- Parents and ChildrenSiblings RelationsCrimesDangerDishonestyCriminal HeroesGangstersChases and Races more...
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Genres:
- CrimeDramaPeriodThriller
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s
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Place:
- New YorkUSA
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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- Brief NudityDrugs/AlcoholProfanitySexual ContentStrong Violent Content
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We Own The Night, 2007
English, Russian
USA
Profile of We Own The Night
The mood of We Own The Night is gloomy, captivating, and rough. The plot centers around sibling relations, parents and children, and dishonesty. It is a drama, crime, and thriller movie. In approach, We Own The Night is serious and realistic. The setting is New York. It happens in the 1980s. We Own The Night is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes brief nudity, , and drugs/alcohol.
Summary of We Own The Night
Director James Gray (THE YARDS) posits two distinctly different brothers--Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) and Bobby Grusinsky (Joaquin Phoenix)--as the central characters in this crime-infested thriller. Joseph and Bobby inhabit two conflicting worlds in late 1980s New York, the former becoming a cop and the latter running a nightclub. Bobby spends his evenings in a den of iniquity, indulging in drugs, alcohol, and gambling, and his model-like girlfriend Amada (Eva Mendes) is never far from his arm. Their two worlds meet when the father of the two men, Burt (Robert Duvall), who is also a cop, gets together with Joseph to ask Bobby for information about a patron of the club named Vadim (Alex Veadov). Vadim is the nephew of the club's owner, and also a dangerous member of the Russian criminal underworld. Bobby sides with Vadim, and the tension in Gray's brother-versus-brother potboiler reaches melting point as Joseph goes after both his sibling and his Russian foe.
Wahlberg, Phoenix, and Duvall all deliver high-caliber performances throughout, and Gray suffuses the plot with enough twists and turns to provide a few surprises. New York City is perfectly utilized as a backdrop to the action, and cinematographer Joaquin Baca-Asay manages to get the balance between moody, atmospheric shots and explosive action sequences just right. WE OWN THE NIGHT ultimately resembles an old-fashioned cop film with a little Scorsese-like drama thrown in for good measure, and is likely to gain a following among movie fans seeking retro crime thrills.
Details
| Language: | English, Russian |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 9 October 2007 |
| Runtime: | 117 min |
Cast and Crew
as Robert 'Bobby' Green
as Capt. Joseph 'Joe' Grusinsky
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Rolling Stone
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- by: Peter Travers
Washington Post
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- by: Ann Hornaday
Users Reviews
- 23.March.2009
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- by: prozac pop
- prozac pop rated this movie
8/10Great
- 22.March.2009
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- by: Matthew
- Matthew rated this movie6/10Okay
