We Own the Night (film)
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| Directed by | James Gray |
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Marc Butan Joaquin Phoenix Mark Wahlberg Nick Wechsler |
| Written by | James Gray |
| Starring | Joaquin Phoenix Mark Wahlberg Eva Mendes Robert Duvall |
| Music by | Wojciech Kilar |
| Cinematography | Joaquín Baca-Asay |
| Edited by | John Axelrad |
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Columbia Pictures Universal Pictures (international) |
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117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $21 million |
| Box office | $54,926,886 |
We Own the Night is a 2007 American crime drama film written and directed by James Gray and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Robert Duvall. It is the third film directed by Gray, and the second to feature Phoenix and Wahlberg together, the first being The Yards.
The title comes from the motto of the NYPD's Street Crimes Unit, which disbanded in 2002.
The film premiered May 25, at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It was released October 12, 2007 in the United States and Canada. It was released in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2007 and in Australia on February 28, 2008.
In 1988 in Brooklyn, New York, Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is the manager of the successful El Caribe nightclub in Brighton Beach that is frequented by Russian black market gangster and drug lord Vadim Nezhinski (Alex Veadov), and owned by Marat Buzhayev, Vadim's uncle and Bobby's boss.
Bobby has distanced himself from his father, NYPD Deputy Chief Burt Grusinsky (Robert Duvall), and his brother, Captain Joseph Grusinsky (Mark Wahlberg). He uses the maiden name of his mother, Carol Green, as his last name, preferring to remain on the sidelines and enjoy a hedonistic life with his girlfriend Amada Juarez (Eva Mendes) and best friend Louis "Jumbo" Falsetti (Danny Hoch).
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