The Yards [Blu-ray]

Director: James Gray James Gray

Overview

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. Hoping to get his life back on track, he takes a job in the New York subway yards, secured by his Uncle Frank (James Caan), who has a high-ranking position in the New York Transit Authority. The longer Leo works in the yards, the more he realizes that his uncle controls a corrupt underworld where graft, violent reprisals, and even death are just part of the job. Will Leo turn against his family in the name of justice, or will he keep quiet and ignore the danger and lawlessness that surround him? The Yards also features Charlize Theron, Joaquin Phoenix, Ellen Burstyn, and Faye Dunaway. It was director James Gray's first film after his acclaimed debut with Little Odessa.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/31/2022
UPC:	0810103680050
Original Release:	2000
Rating:	R
Source:	Miramax
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00
Sales rank:	32,840

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mark Wahlberg	Leo Handler
Joaquin Phoenix	Willie Gutierrez
Charlize Theron	Erica Stoltz
James Caan	Frank Olchin
Ellen Burstyn	Val Handler
Faye Dunaway	Kitty Olchin
Victor Argo	Paul Lazarides
Tony Musante	Seymour Korman
Steve Lawrence	Arthur Mydanick
Andrew Davoli	Raymond Price
Chad Aaron	Bernard Stoltz
Tomas Milian	Manuel Sequiera
Robert Montano	Hector Gallardo
Victor Arnold	Albert Granada
Louis Guss	Nathan Grodner
Domenick Lombardozzi	Todd
Joe Lisi	Elliot
David Zayas	Officer Jerry Rifkin
Joseph Ragno	Parole Officer
Teresa Yenque	Maid
Jose Soto	Orderly
John Tormey	Contract Officer
Teddy Coluca	Terry
Jack O'Connell	Sal Disipio
Dan Grimaldi	Executive One
Garry Patore	Detective Tommasino
Ron Brice	Detective Boulett
Gene Canfield	Queensborough Policeman
Keith Hernandez	Baseball Celebrity
Allan Houston	Basketball Celebrity
Andi Shrem	Belva
Joe Dimare	Dante
Barry Wetcher	Young Doctor
Oscar Colon	Well Dressed Man
Jace Kent	Young Italian Man
Brandon Danziger	Neil
Doug Barron	Doctor
Floyd Resnick	Hospital Cop
Chris Edwards	Police Officer
Raymond Seiden	Police Officer
Annika Pergament	Reporter
Maximiliano Hernández	Bartender
Kip Evans	Guy
John Elsen	Officer No. 1
Douglas Crosby	Officer No. 2
Scott Nicholson	Policeman No. 1
Kim Merritt	Todd's Girlfriend
Erin Walls	Dante's Girlfriend
Tyree Simpson	Doorman
Peter Vallone	Councilman
Irwin Gray	Laywer
Denise Traficanti	Secretary
Roma Torre	News Anchor No. 1
Louis Dodley	News Anchor No. 2
Ernie Anastos	News Anchor No. 3
Howard Shore	Composer

Technical Credits

James Gray

Matt Reeves

James Gray	Director,Screenwriter
Matt Reeves	Screenwriter
Douglas Aibel	Casting
Jonathan Gordon	Executive Producer
Jery Hewitt	Stunts
Kerry Orent	Producer
Paul Webster	Producer
Nick Wechsler	Producer
Harvey Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Tom Paul	Sound/Sound Designer
Gary Rydstrom	Sound/Sound Designer
Kyrsten Mate Comoglio	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

A melancholy, morally ambiguous study in blue-collar venality, The Yards demonstrates the nature of corruption and its cancerous effect on people who imagine themselves decent. Mark Wahlberg is chilling in the pivotal role of Leo Handler, a young, poorly educated ex-con who needs money to support his sickly mother (Ellen Burstyn). His uncle Frank (James Caan), who runs a business repairing New York City subway trains, wants to help out, and Leo winds up working with his shady best friend, Willie (Joaquin Phoenix), a facilitator around the yards. When a yardmaster is murdered, Leo is implicated, and the law's vise begins to tighten. Director and co-writer James Gray (Little Odessa)whose own father figured in a racketeering scandal, knows intimately the system he's depicting: His characters engage in a conspiracy of silence, tempted to betray each other only by their instinct for self-preservation. They live in a dour, morose world, visualized by Gray in burnished ocher images. Burstyn, Faye Dunaway, and Charlize Theron are exceptional as the women in Leo's life, each resigned to her increasingly desperate position in his shadowy existence. The Yards is neither a vibrant crime film nor a simplistic morality play: It is a stark, realistic, occasionally poignant drama whose characters will etch themselves into your memory.

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse