Product Information
Set in 1988 New York, this tense crime drama features a nightclub manager who experiences a crisis of conscience when forced to take a side in the drug wars going on all around him.Product Identifiers
ProducerNick Wechsler, Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Marc Butan
EAN5050582529494
eBay Product ID (ePID)60656806
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleWe Own the Night
ActorMark Wahlberg, Alex Veadov, Eva Mendes, Robert Duvall, Joaquin Phoenix
DirectorJames Gray
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
Release Year2011
FeaturesWidescreen, Making of We Own the Night, Closed Caption
Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Run Time113 Mins
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Director of PhotographyJoaquin Baca-Asay
ReviewsRolling Stone - James Gray's pulverizing crime drama is unafraid to put its passions right out where it's easy to mock them. WE OWN THE NIGHT is defiantly, refreshingly unhip
Consumer AdviceContains strong language, bloody violence and drug use
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
Additional InformationDirector 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 attractive 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.<BR>Wahlberg, Phoenix, and Duvall all deliver high-calibre performances throughout, and Gray suffuses the plot with enough twists and turns to provide a few surprises. New York City is perfectly utilised 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.
Movie/TV TitleWe Own The Night
ComposerWojciech Kilar
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
ScreenwriterJames Gray