Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is the manager of the trendy nightclub El Caribe in New York's Brighton Beach neighborhood. He loves his job, the countless parties and his beautiful girlfriend Amada Juarez (Eva Mendes). He is a popular guy among the nightclub's guests. Bobby dreams of a career as a nightclub owner and plans to open a number of nightclubs in Manhattan himself. While his career is on track, Bobby's personal life is a bit different. He is the black sheep of the family, and his relationship with his father - the renowned police commissioner Burt (Robert Duvall) and his brother - the young, budding and ambitious officer Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) - is particularly problematic. As officers in the New York Police Department, neither Burt nor Joseph have anything to do with Bobby's flamboyant lifestyle.
The year is 1988. The streets of New York are plagued by crime. Drugs are rampant, and the police are desperately trying to catch the ringleaders, with great human losses as a result. When a new type of drug is rampant in the city, the police begin to take an interest in the mafia leader Vadim (Alex Veadov). Vadim is a regular at Bobby's nightclub and uses the nightclub as a base for some of the mafia's illegal activities. The police need help, and Bobby's brother and father try to get Bobby to take part in the investigation, but he is not at all interested in getting involved. He is well aware that it will put himself and others in danger, and at the same time it will ruin his career as a nightclub owner.
In the nightclub, Bobby therefore tries to hide his real identity and his connection to the police, and in general he keeps as low a profile as possible, because the mafia is not aware that it is Bobby's brother who is the leading figure in the fight against them. The final showdown between the police and the mafia is inevitable, and before long open war has been declared between the two parties. In the midst of it all, Bobby finds himself in a conflict of loyalties, forced to choose between his career as a nightclub manager and his family's survival.
Original title: We Own the Night
Director: James Gray
Cast:
Bobby Green Joaquin Phoenix
Amada Juarez Eva Mendes
Joe Grusinsky Mark Wahlberg
Albert Grusinsky Robert Duvall
Vadim Nezhinski Alex Veadov
Freddie Dominic Colon
Jumbo Falsetti Danny Hoch
Pavel Lubyarsky Oleg Taktarov
Marat Buzhayev Moni Moshonov
Subtitles:
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Language: English
Spoken languages: English
Subtitles: Danish,Swedish,Norwegian,Finnish
