The Yards

After serving time for a crime he didn’t commit, Leo Handler makes an effort to get his life back on track. Joining the family business, he unknowingly enters into a world of danger and lawlessness and must decide whether to speak up or remain silent., Leo (Mark Wahlberg) finds himself unwittingly drawn into a world of sabotage and discovers a secret that makes him the target of the city’s most ruthless family – his own., In this gritty crime drama, Mark Wahlberg stars as an ex-con who’s trying to stay on the straight and narrow. Soon after he lands a job fixing subway cars at a company run by his corrupt uncle (James Caan), he gets caught up in union racketeering and murder on the mean streets of New York City. Joaquin Phoenix, Faye Dunaway, Charlize Theron, Ellen Burstyn, Steve Lawrence., Leo Handler has just been released from prison for a car theft he did not commit. Looking for a job, he turns to his uncle Frank, who runs a lucrative railway car repair company. Leo takes a job offered by Franc, knowing that it will involve some kind of criminality. One night a mission goes terribly wrong and a supervisor is killed and a cop beaten up badly by Leo., James Gray’s taut thriller stars Mark Wahlberg as an ex-con, received back into the bosom of his family, led by his uncle James Caan. Caan runs a company that has lucrative contracts to repair New York’s subway trains but he also has to make sure the opposition are seen in a bad light and that means employing Joaquin Phoenix, Wahlberg’s best friend, to undertake a little sabotage. As Wahlberg gets sucked into the criminal underworld surrounding the repair yards and violence explodes, so he finds himself a target for the police – and his uncle, who needs to guarantee his silence., In this drama, a young man joins the family business without knowing that he’s entering a world of danger and deceit. Hot-headed Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) has had some scrapes with the law and served time for a crime he didn’t commit. Hoping to get his life back on track, he takes a job in the New York subway yards, secured by his Uncle Frank (James Caan), who has a high-ranking position in the New York Transit Authority. The longer Leo works in the yards, the more he realizes that his uncle controls a corrupt underworld where graft, violent reprisals, and even death are just part of the job. Will Leo turn against his family in the name of justice, or will he keep quiet and ignore the danger and lawlessness that surround him? The Yards also features Charlize Theron, Joaquin Phoenix, Ellen Burstyn, and Faye Dunaway. It was director James Gray’s first film after his acclaimed debut with Little Odessa., 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 soon discovers, however, that Uncle Frank has turned the family business into a dangerous world of sabotage, high-stakes payoffs, and murder., Leo Handler took the fall for his friends and went to jail. Now he’s out and looking for work. His uncle suggests he learn a trade in New York’s grimy rail yards, but Leo has eyes only for the suits and style of his pal Willie and he is soon mired deep in crime.