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We Own the Night (2007)

Name: We Own the Night
Director: James Gray
Genre: drama film, crime film, police film
Rating: 6.8

We Own the Night is a 2007 American drama film directed and written by James Gray, co-produced by and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg, and co-starring Eva Mendes and Robert Duvall. It is the third film directed by Gray, and the second to feature Phoenix and Wahlberg together, the first being 2000's The Yards. The title comes from the motto of the NYPD's Street Crimes Unit, which disbanded in 2002, and…

Directed by James Gray · Music by Wojciech Kilar

Behind the scenes

Video Essay: "Anaphora: James Gray's WE OWN THE NIGHT" — MUBI · 9 min

Elsewhere

More by James Gray

Little Odessa — 1994
The Yards — 2000
Two Lovers — 2008
The Immigrant — 2013
The Lost City of Z — 2016
Ad Astra — 2019
Armageddon Time — 2022
Paper Tiger — 2026

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