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Synopsis: 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. Willie Gutierrez, Leo's best friend, is Frank's bag man and heads a crew of midnight saboteurs who ruin the work of the Puerto Rican-owned firm. Leo needs a job, so Willie pays him to be his back-up. Then things go badly wrong one night, a cop IDs Leo, and everyone now wants him out of the picture. Besides his ailing mom and his cousin Erica, to whom can Leo turn?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director(s): James Gray
Production: Miramax Films
  3 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
R
Year:
2000
115 min
Website
540 Views


You got yourself in some trouble.

You stole a couple of cars?

- Yeah.

- You did a little time, huh?

I know it's pretty tough in there, but the

business world ain't that much different.

Sometimes you gotta have eyes

in the back of your f***ing head.

So, you know what we do here?

If it's on a train,

if it's on a New York subway, we make it.

Or we fix it.

Couplers, brakes, transformers, everything.

- Had any experience with stuff like that?

- I could learn.

Good. Good.

There's some very good training programs

out there for machinists.

I could make a call.

I really need to support

me and my mother right now.

How long would a program like that take?

A good machinist - a couple of years.

But you'd have a good union job waiting

for you here when you were through.

Four, 500 a week.

And I could help you along a little,

till you graduate.

What about Willie? He didn't go to school.

He thought maybe I could work with him.

- I don't think that's such a good idea.

- What does he do?

He deals with supplies mostly.

I don't know. I really think

that you should look into a program.

I'd have to think about that.

All right.

Uh, look, why don't...

Why don't you and your mother come

to the house Saturday night for dinner?

All the family will be there,

it'll be very nice.

OK.

Leo.

Thanks for coming.

Now, look. You're a nephew now

and I'd really like to help you.

Hey, man. How you doing? All right?

How you doing?

- Ricky.

- Hey, Willie, what's up, man?

Hey, this is my friend Leo. Leo, this is

Ricky. We went to Francis Lewis together.

Thanks for hooking me up with Ross. He

put in my system. I like the way it sounds.

- I told you he's the best.

- So what's up? What do you want?

Give me two Millers, a Jim Beam and some

rum and coke for them right there.

Put it on my tab.

Willie, I don't know

what the f*** I'm gonna do.

About what? Frank?

Yeah.

You don't gotta go to school. He tried

that same sh*t with me when I started.

I convinced him,

"Let me work with the suits."

Well, how did you do that?

He let me hang out with them

and I earned their respect.

You're throwing a lot of f***ing money

around. What is it you do for this guy?

Why don't you come down with me

tomorrow and see for yourself?

If you like it, we'll talk to Frank about it.

I'm just asking, 'cause you know

I can't get into no trouble.

You won't.

I won't let you get into trouble.

Look, Frank's a great man.

We got a real chance with him.

You know my mother spent

her whole f***ing life on handouts.

Now I got f***ing money in my pocket,

the sky's the limit.

Yeah, but you was always good

with people. I'm not too good with words.

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