The Yards
The Yards is a 2000 American crime film directed by James Gray, written by Gray and Matt Reeves, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, Faye Dunaway, Ellen Burstyn and James Caan.
Plot
Leo Handler visits his mother Val's house in Queens, New York, where she throws a surprise party celebrating his parole. There he meets up with Willie Gutierrez, his cousin Erica Soltz's boyfriend, who thanks him for serving time in prison, implying that Leo had taken a fall for their gang of friends. Eager to support Val, who has a heart condition, Leo follows Willie's suggestion of working for Erica's stepfather, Frank Olchin. The next day, at the offices of his railway car repair company, the Electric Rail Corporation, in Maspeth, Frank offers to help finance Leo's studies during a 2-year machinist program. Needing work immediately, Leo asks if Willie could be allowed to join the company, but Frank declines. Willie commiserates with Leo that night at a nightclub, saying Frank also unsuccessfully tried to get him into a machinist program.
More details
| author | James Gray Matt Reeves |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | James Gray |
| editor | Jeffrey Ford |
| events | corruption white-collar crime |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | attorney attorney general awaken brooklyn borough hall disturb hear heart attack heart condition hide kill knicks land low profile murder one night police officer political corruption puerto rican railway car rat roosevelt island sexual intercourse stab surprise party |
| musicBy | Howard Shore |
| producer | Nick Wechsler Paul Webster |
| productionCompany | Paul Webster/Industry Entertainment |
| publisher | Miramax Films |
| recordedAt | New Jersey New York City |