The Yards

2000 "He's the target of the most merciless family in New York. His own."
6.4| 1h55m| R| en| More Info
Released: 20 October 2000 Released
Producted By: Miramax
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.miramax.com/movie/the-yards
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In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.

Genre

Drama, Thriller, Crime

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Director

James Gray

Production Companies

Miramax

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The Yards Audience Reviews

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Console best movie i've ever seen.
Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
Freaktana A Major Disappointment
G Connolly It's perhaps the classic film of Mark Wahlberg and in the top two of Joaquin Phoenix, not just for their studied playings, but their colleagues', the direction, editing, conception, most of the whole production. The directing with editing are very fine indeed. The cinematography is so immaculate I didn't even think of it until the end. Top stuff.I think an average of around 6 stars is really low for this king of all morality tales. It's not perfect, and does have a simplistic edge (what do you expect for a Big Apple 'street' morality fable?) but others have agreed with me that it's one of the best productions of the whole genre in modern film. It deserves an 8 to 10 star average, while it's not the kind of film which is made particularly for repeated viewings. Some are, some aren't, but as a once in a long time watch, this amazing opera like fable is immaculately constructed.
charles000 Not exactly, but somewhat in the "Godfather" genre' of story and cultural scenario, it's not really the sort of movie I would be inclined to become interested in, but the cast is so strong, I had to at least give it a shot.Joaquin Phoenix and James Caan delivered their characters about as perfectly as could be done in the context of the story. Technically they were flawless, kudos to the casting director.But . . . Charlize Theron . . . if for no other reason, watching her more than justified the time spent. Spectacularly beautiful, but well crafted to suit her character, she makes the film!The actual story . . . well, it's predictable enough. Nothing surprising, no winding twists and turns, no really compelling complexities woven into this script. A snapshot of life, with its foibles of the human condition mapped against a well known cultural stereotype.But if for no other reason than to watch Charlize at the absolute peak of her career, doing her thing as best as she's ever done, I might watch it again some time.
asthenic Some well known, not necessarily brilliant, actors are collected to stroke a neophyte director's ego in a very tedious and boring film that is a direct steal from Visconti's "Rocco and His Brothers," right down to the soundtrack. Only there is nothing relevant about what is said, other than that there is corruption everywhere. C'mon, let's get a fresh idea or two before stealing from a classic. Charleze Theron delivers another chameleon like performance and Ellen Burstyn twitters away like always. Faye Dunaway has long ago convinced us that she hasn't any real idea of what acting is about other than trying to steal scenes, and Mark Walhberg covers character nuances from A-B(apathetic to bland) while huge pipe organs pound out prophetic over dramatic music to establish the doom to come. It was interesting to note that this pedestrian director didn't direct anything of note thereafter.
bkoganbing Over the course of his career Mark Wahlberg has emerged as the working man's image on the big screen. He certainly comes by that naturally with his background being born and raised in the Dorchester section of Boston. His best performances on screen in my opinion have been of ordinary people and their situations. In The Yards he gives one of his best performances and his Boston accent barely shows.The Yards refers to the place where the New York City subway cars are housed and maintained. There are several in the city and the action here takes place in the Sunnyside section of Queens. Mark Wahlberg is a young man who recently was released from jail having taken a rap for all of his friends involved in a crime.He wants badly to turn over a new leaf and his uncle James Caan who has a business maintaining the subway cars offers him work. He can also go the trade school route. But Wahlberg's mother Ellen Burstyn is in a bad way and he's needing money now. Another tragedy of our inadequate health system. Rather than repair subway cars, Wahlberg goes to work with his old running buddy Joaquin Phoenix who works for Caan on the side wrecking the work of other contractors, minority contractors who get a set quotient of work.But one night Wahlberg is caught by a cop whom he turns the tables on, takes his nightstick and clubs him leaving him in a coma. At the same time Phoenix has a quarrel with yardmaster at night and knifes him to death. No one suspects him, but there's a bullseye on Wahlberg's back with every cop in the city hunting him.The manure piles up big time in this one, even threatening the Queens Borough President Steve Lawrence. How it all works out is a typical New York City story.Big Kudos for Mark Wahlberg in this one and some recognition for Joaquin Phoenix playing another one who gets in way over his head. The Yards should be seen back to back with the Al Pacino film City Hall for a real look at New York's political underbelly.