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We Own the Night (Blu-ray)
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We Own the Night (Blu-ray)
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| | | Two Brothers on Opposite Sides of the Law. Beyond Their Differences Lies Loyalty.
Features: Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Spanish, Dubbed & Subtitled
What if your own family stood in the way of everything you worked for? Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has forsaken his name to escape his family and their tradition in law enforcement to pursue his ambitions as a Brooklyn nightclub owner. As he turns a blind eye to the drug dealers around him, he comes face to face with the family he abandoned when his brother (Mark Wahlberg) and father (Robert Duvall) crack down on the club. Now Bobby must choose a side. Is he going to turn informant or will he help run the biggest crime ring in New York history?
"An intriguing blend of mainstream audience-pleaser and a more subtle, even intellectual agenda." Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"The movie really belongs to Phoenix, who gives a haunting performance with just the right degree of intensity." Claudia Puig, USA Today
"It's awfully difficult...to come up with a car chase that's startlingly new, but Gray pulls it off. It's the best of its kind since "The French Connection."" Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
"...an atmospheric, intense film, well acted, and when it's working it has a real urgency." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...an exploration of the demands and obligations of brotherly love, staged with honesty, originality and a surprising spark of intelligence." William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Hindi | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
| Entertainment Reviews
| We Own the Night - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 2/1/2008 8:25 PM | |
James Gray has assembled what looks and sounds like a good, smart thriller with We Own the Night: a strong cast, serious aspirations, a specific time and place (Brooklyn, 1988). The story is shopworn, but not without dramatic potential: Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg play brothers on the opposite-ish sides of the law; Joseph (Wahlberg) has followed in the footsteps of their father (Robert Duvall) and joined the NYPD while Bobby (Phoenix) rebels by running a seedy nightclub. With a drug dealer inching into Bobby's territory, he's forced to reconsider his loyalties. Meanwhile, the movie forces me to reconsider my own, because it spends a lot more time seeming like a good movie than actually being one....read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 2/12/2008 |
| Running Time: 117 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 22534 | | UPC: 00043396225343 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Hindi, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Eva Mendes | | Joaquin Phoenix | | Mark Wahlberg | | Robert Duvall | | Ford Wheeler - Production Designer | | James C. Feng - Art Director | | James Gray - Director | | James Gray - Writer | | Joaquin Baca-Asay - Cinematographer | | Joaquin Phoenix - Producer | | John Axelrad - Editor | | Mark Cuban - Executive Producer | | Wojciech Kilar - Original Music By |
| Awards |
Nominee (2007) | | | Cannes Film Festival, James Gray, Golden Palm Award |
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