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Overview

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Director:
James Gray
Writers (WGA):
James Gray (written by) &
Matt Reeves (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
27 April 2000 (Singapore) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
There's nothing more dangerous than an innocent man.
Plot:
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Cut Bait more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Mark Wahlberg ... Leo Handler

Joaquin Phoenix ... Willie Gutierrez

Charlize Theron ... Erica Soltz

James Caan ... Frank Olchin

Ellen Burstyn ... Val Handler

Faye Dunaway ... Kitty Olchin
Steve Lawrence ... Arthur Mydanick

Andy Davoli ... Raymond Price (as Andrew Davoli)

Tony Musante ... Seymour Korman
Victor Argo ... Paul Lazarides
Tomas Milian ... Manuel Sequiera

Robert Montano ... Hector Gallardo
Victor Arnold ... Albert Granada
Chad Aaron ... Bernard Soltz
Louis Guss ... Nathan Grodner
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language, violence and a scene of sexuality.
Runtime:
115 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Company:
Miramax Films more

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Trivia:
The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) initially refused permission to film on its property. The filmmakers decided to film at an old abandoned freight yard and a studio set. Finally, a deal was reached allowing one scene to be shot inside the 207th Street Car Shop and Yard on NYCTA property. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The pearl handled pistol that Frank Olchin removes from his sock drawer was sitting on his desk in the study, the room he just left. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Beantown (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Boo-go-loo more

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17 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
Cut Bait, 12 November 2000
Author: lou-50 from Houston, Texas

"The Yards" invites you to taste corruption and to witness an imposed morality and then slyly allows you to resolve its escalating entanglements. It is a well-acted morality tale written and directed by James Gray that is as topical now as when the first bureaucrat accepted graft. Mark Wahlberg's Leo Handler character is a loser who seeks to redeem himself from the neglect of his sick mother and the evil he has done to others. If only his friends and relatives had similarly good intentions. The world he inhabits is a society with the unwritten code of conduct to never snitch or else pay the consequences. The best scene involves Leo as he nervously proceeds with his orders to kill the policeman who can finger him in the rail yard assault. Can he justify yet one more crime in order to maintain the good graces of his benefactors? Joaquin Phoenix's character, Willie, is perhaps the most tormented figure, having to choose between his high-minded intentions and his immoral survival instincts. He becomes less the controller and more the henchman of what others tell him to do. The excellent cast gives "The Yard" a true flavor of the perverse nature of favoritism from Faye Dunaway and James Caan to Ellen Burstyn and Charlize Theron (in a surprisingly youthful dark mascara look). However, Joan Allen would have added a harsher, more pessimistic visage to the sometimes inappropriately bubbly Burstyn. This film displays well how corruption commands people's lives and how hard it is to break out of that code of conduct.

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