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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
549 Views


- I'm not comfortable taking your money.

- Money?

Oh, no. We've been through all this.

Nobody's giving us any money.

- Why can't they work together?

- Erica.

Sorry.

Leo, I hope everything works out for you.

Being round the business,

maybe you'll learn something.

I really hope so.

Good. Good.

OK, good. Clean plate club, OK.

You got the hot mustard there?

You gotta have the hot mustard.

Erica.

Hey.

- What?

- I wanna show you something.

What?

- What is it?

- Open it up.

Oh, Willie.

We'll tell everyone this weekend.

I want to make this right.

I love you.

- So where are we going?

- We're going to the Sunnyside yards.

The guys will be there.

They're waiting for us.

There's someone new I want you to meet

that's working with me now.

What are we going to do down there?

We take out our competitors' trains.

Short their stuff out,

make sure it don't work right.

Make it unreliable,

and we get the jobs.

Tonight, it's Weltec's trains.

Remember those f***ing guys

we had the run-in with at Borough Hall?

I just want you

to stand back and watch tonight.

Everything's going to be all right.

- Boys, what's going on?

- How you doing?

- What's up, Dante?

- How you doing, Todd?

Hey, Leo.

Raymond, that's Leo.

- How you doing, man?

- What's going on, how are you doing?

He's coming down with me to make a drop.

You ever in Local One or Local Three?

No.

'Cause we don't deal with construction.

I don't know nothing about that.

All right, well, you're here

'cause your friends clear you.

All right, we're going down.

Leo, stay here.

- Make sure nobody comes down, all right?

- All right, I'll hang right here for you.

Got you those Knicks tickets.

This is for you.

I don't want it, Willie.

You gotta get your guys off the tracks.

- What are you talking about?

- You've been moved out.

Weltec came in here last week

and they put 2k right there.

- And they got the muscle to back it up.

- Come on, you know how this works.

Somebody comes to you with a better offer,

you come back at us.

Word is Electric Rail's going under and

Weltec guaranteed they'd match any offer.

Now, Willie, get 'em off the tracks,

'cause I got the cops coming down here.

Keep going.

Come on.

You wouldn't do that to us.

- What the f*** are you doing?

- Jump.

Willie!

Will!

Hey! What are you doing?

- Nothing.

- Nothing? What do you mean, nothing?

You a troublemaker? I oughtta crack

your f***ing head open, you know that?

Turn that thing off.

- What the f*** you gonna do with that?

- Turn that f***ing thing off.

I'm talking to you.

You got some ID?

Don't f***ing do it, man.

Put your hands up. Turn around.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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