The Yards Page #4

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
547 Views


What do you think I'm doing?

Running some kind of three-ring circus?

Sr. Gutierrez.

I want to speak with you.

- I have nothing to say. Hector.

- Hey. I'm your friend.

I know what you're doing.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Why don't you come and work for us

instead of those cabrones?

- Don't waste my time.

- Hey.

You'll never be as white as they are.

Let's go.

- Who's this?

- That's Leo. You'll get to know him.

I'm not in the mood

to make any new friends today.

It'll be all right.

- Who's that?

- Frank's nephew.

- Did he do time?

- Yeah.

You got the money?

Say hello to your uncle for me.

- See you around, Willie.

- All right. Take it easy.

What the f*** was that about?

Nothing.

It's just he's very worried about wires.

Either that or he's got a thing for me.

Seems pretty f***ing Welrd to me.

- Does he get a cut of everything?

- Listen, don't worry about it.

He's a city official.

It's just the way the system works.

Now here's the good part.

That's for you.

Pretty good, huh?

- A little pocket change.

- You must have saved up a lot.

No, I think I spent it all on your cousin.

So that's it.

Next week, I'll take you down the yards,

into the tunnels.

Sounds good.

Leo, come on, are you ready?

We gotta go soon.

Ma.

I got you something.

What are you doing?

You don't have to get me anything.

I wanted to.

I just thought you needed it.

Leo, you can't.

Every dollar is saved, you know that.

It's beautiful. Thank you.

Now, come on.

Frank is sending a car for us.

All right. I'm just gonna change real quick.

That's it right there, that's their house.

- Bernard, get the door.

- I'm sitting down.

- Sorry we're late.

- Oh, good.

Come on in. Sit down, sit down.

Do me a favor, Willie, sit over there.

- Sit over here, Leo. Good.

- Oh, hi, Bernard.

- This is a really nice house.

- Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

We're doing a little work on it.

I'm building a family room.

- The a**holes wake us up every morning.

- Erica, is that necessary?

- Please, don't start.

- Ma, can I have some lemonade?

- This all looks delicious.

- It's wonderful. They got great food.

- It's a little rich sometimes.

- This is Bernie's. Give him it.

Will you pass the rice back

when you've finished with it?

So, Leo, did you tell your mother

what we talked about?

What was that?

I told him I thought maybe he should look

into some training program as a machinist.

Yeah, that sounds terrific.

Actually, I went out with Willie

and I'm thinking of working with him.

Yeah, I want to talk to you about that.

That sounds good. Two

of 'em work together, that sounds good.

I don't understand. I mean,

I thought we had this whole conversation.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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