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| Friday 19th | 7.00pm | Gate Multiplex |
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We Own The Night
James Gray
USA | 2007 | 117mins | 35mm | Colour
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In the New York party scene of the late eighties, nightclub manager Bobby Green is living the dream and enjoys the hedonistic lifestyle. He has a beautiful girlfriend Amada and ambitions to get out of Brooklyn and open his own club. Meanwhile on the streets, the police are fighting a desperate fight on organized crime as ever more deadly drugs wreak havoc on the city.Leading this fight are Police Lieutenant Joseph Grusinsky and his father, legendary Deputy Chief Burt Grusinsky. The El Caribe nightclub, where Bobby works, is owned by the Russian Marat Bujayev, whose nephew Vadim is one of the city’s biggest drug dealers. When Joseph leads a raid on the premises he arrests Bobby and Vadim. However, when Vadim is released due to lack of evidence he tracks the earnest cop down and shoots him in front of his own house. He survives but the event has unsettling implications for Bobby.
He too is a Grusinsky. He adopted his mother’s name when he turned his back on becoming a cop like his brother and father before him. Now he must reunite with his family to protect them from being wiped out. Gray, whose Little Odessa had a similarly strong feel for this demimonde, makes great use of the Brooklyn locations but the real explosive action comes from the pairing of Phoenix and Wahlberg as the brothers while Duvall’s Burt Grusinsky adds weight to this updating of the prodigal son story.
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