The Yards

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Theatrical Release Date:

10/20/2000

DVD Release Date:

04/17/2001

Run Time:

115min.

Starring:

Mark Wahlberg , Joaquin Phoenix , Charlize Theron , James Caan , Ellen Burstyn

Director(s):

James Gray

Distributor(s):

Miramax

MPAA Rating:

R for language, violence and a scene of sexuality.

Genre(s):

Drama

Plot: In this drama, a young man joins the family business without knowing that he's entering a world of danger and deceit. Hot-headed Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) has had some scrapes with the law and served time for a crime he didn't commit. Read More

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Greatness in the Making: Director James Gray

by Eugene Novikov

It's so exciting -- literally exciting; pulse-quickening -- to watch a monumental new talent emerge and begin to edge toward what will eventually be his rightful place among the filmmaking greats. After watching his fourth film, Two Lovers (which opens...

Review: We Own the Night

by Jeffrey M. Anderson

James Gray's The Yards (2000) opened in the U.S. to fairly mixed reviews, many politely recommending it and many politely panning it. Nobody got too excited about it either way, and neither did audiences. According to boxofficemojo.com, it grossed less...

Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow are 'Two Lovers'

by Christopher Campbell

Since his 1994 debut, Little Odessa, filmmaker James Gray has been sparse with output. It took six years for him to deliver his follow-up, The Yards, and another seven years to give us We Own the Night, which premiered earlier this year at Cannes and...

Phoenix and Gray to team up again

by Martha Fischer

Joaquin Phoenix looks set to follow up his critically-acclaimed work in Walk the Line by reuniting with his The Yards director, James Gray. The two will collaborate on We Own the Night, a thriller set during in the 1980s struggle between Russian organized...