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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: Miramax Films
Release Date: Oct 20, 2000
Running Time: 115 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
After being imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Leo Handler just wants to get his life back on track, so he heads home to take a job in the New York City subway yards, where his highly connected Uncle Frank now runs the show. He meets up with his old childhood friend, Willie Guitierrez, his cousin, and his girlfriend, Erica, and for once he feels settled and safe. He soon discovers, however, that Uncle Frank has turned the family business into a dangerous world of sabotage, high-stakes payoffs, and murder. He inadvertently gets a hold of some information that makes him a target of the most ruthless family in the city, and in the interest of justice he vows to expose them all.
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Leo Handler
Willie Gutierrez
Erica Stoltz
Frank Olchin
Val Handler
Kitty Olchin
Bernard Stoltz
Raymond Price
Arthur Mydanick
Seymour Korman
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reviews
December 10, 2000
Hollywood seems to be having an October sale on botched movies. Self-importance sinks this one like a stone. Mark Wahlberg stars as Leo Handler, a car thief just out of jail and looking for a job with his Uncle Frank (James Caan), whose shady company repairs trains in the New York subway system. There's family tangles to unravel as well. Leo's friend Willie (Joaquin Phoenix) has taken up with Frank's stepdaughter Erica (Charlize Theron), who used to be Leo's girl. When Willie frames Leo for a…
James Gray ("Little Odessa") has directed a crime drama that could have spent a bit more time in the editing room. There's only so long an audience will buy that a fugitive can hide from the New York City police, especially when he's hiding out at him mom's house. Puh-leeze! The ending sequence is further marred by a Hollywood cliché (a grand jury trial) that has become all too common. |
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