Popular manager of nightclub El Caribe Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has turned his back on family tradition.He has changed his last name in order to hide his strong connection with a long line of highly distinguished New York City cops.For Bobby everynight is party night as El Caribe as he greets customers and dancese with his girlfriend Amber (Eva Mendes) in a swirl of alcohol and cigarette smoke.But in 1988 the drug trade is escalating in New York and El Caribe's russian owner and ganster is being targeted by Bobby's brother, up and coming NYPD cop, Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) and father, the legendary deputy chief of police Burt (Robert Duvall).We Own the Night, an emotional crime drama about a man who has chosen to hide his past only to discover that he has to confront an inevitable future, takes its title from the motto of the 1980s-era NYPD street crimes unit. Written and directed by James Gray (The Yards, Little Odessa).
We Own The Night is released December 14.View out We Own The Night gallery.