The Yards Page #6

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
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- You little f***er!

- I didn't do nothing!

I oughtta break you down, motherf***er.

- Hello.

- Mrs. Handler. Is Leo there?

I'm here, Ma. You can hang up.

You've gotta know.

I didn't mean to do it. You know that.

What the f*** happened?

You said everything would be all right.

Everything got f***ed up.

Did anyone see you? What did you do?

What do you mean? A f***ing cop came

down and beat me on my f***ing head.

You OKK?

Yeah, I'm all right,

but I don't know about the cop.

All right. We can't panic.

I'll talk to Frank and he'll know what to do.

Don't worry. Leo. The borough

can't afford arrests and investigations.

The f***ing politicians are in on it.

- You understand?

- I understand.

Willie.

Hey.

I didn't know you were staying here tonight.

I had to get out

of that f***ing house.

Who's that?

- Who is it?

- Raymond.

What the f*** happened?

We can't talk right now. Get the guys

and we'll meet back at the office tonight.

All right?

Is that blood on your hands?

It's nothing. I cut myself. Go home.

- Who was it?

- It was just someone from work.

Now?

Don't worry about it.

Just go back to sleep.

Hello.

- Hold on.

- Who is it?

I don't know.

- Yeah?

- Some trouble this morning?

- Who is this?

- You know the yardmaster is dead.

And that cop may not make it either.

- Hector, is that you?

- You come forward.

Weltec has some very good lawyers.

Don't call here again.

What does everybody want?

I'm sorry, it's so crazy.

I didn't know you were

gonna be here this morning.

I can't wait till we get married.

We'll tell my mother.

Then we'll get married.

We're gonna have a whole family.

- What's the matter?

- Nothing. I'm tired.

- Busca al senor OKIchin?

- Si.

El esta en ese cuarto.

Esta en un meeting.

Conglomerates lose the defense contracts,

then they're back in the train business.

We understand,

but there's nothing we can do.

I'm getting squeezed. The conglomerates

come and take away the work at the top.

The minorities get the work at the bottom.

I'm squeezed in the middle.

Frank, take it easy.

You gotta wait till after the election.

After this election? The next election?

There's always an election.

You have to be patient, Frank.

Right. Well, you listen to me.

You gotta kill these minority quotas

or I'm out of business. Simple as that.

It's too hard now. We got this killing at the

yards. Who knows where that's gonna go?

- You know anything about that, Frank?

- No.

I do know if it were any of my guys,

I'd f***ing kill them.

We hear that cop's still alive, Frank.

He's in a coma.

If he pulls through, and he turns out to be

the business, all hell's gonna break loose.

The cops'd be all over us.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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