Pride and Glory | 
| Director: Gavin O'Connor
Actors: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Noah Emmerich, Jon Voight, Jennifer Ehle
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  69 reviews
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Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, Subtitled, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD045369D
UPC: 794043128417
EAN: 0794043128417
ASIN: B001MZ5W3M
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: January 27, 2009
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Product Description
A SAGA CENTERED ON A MULTI-GENERATIONAL FAMILY OF NYC POLICE OFFICERS. THE FAMILY'S MORAL CODES ARE TESTED WHEN RAY TIERNEY INVESTIGATES A CASE THAT REVEALS AN INCENDIARY POLICE CORRUPTION SCANDAL INVOLVING HIS OWN BROTHER-IN-LAW. FOR RAY, THE TRUTH IS A PANDORA'S BOX THAT THREATENS BOTH HIS FAMILY & THE NYPD.
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Like a forgotten, one-and-only season of a 1980s television show about an Irish-American family of cops, Pride and Glory is full of ambition but lacks the storytelling instinct to realize the goal. Edward Norton stars as Ray Tierney, a New York City police detective whose father, Francis Sr. (Jon Voight), boss of all Manhattan detectives, pressures him into investigating the murder of four officers. Ray's efforts uncover a corruption scandal centered around his brother-in-law, Jimmy (Colin Farrell), a beat cop whose commander happens to be, of course, Ray's brother, Francis Jr. (Noah Emmerich). As Ray pushes forward, Jimmy's self-protective instinct goes savage, and the rest of the Tierney males shift to cover-up mode. Co-writers Joe Carnahan (Narc) and Gavin O'Connor (Miracle), who also directs this film, make a fatal mistake by forcing every element in a long story to further a prefabricated narrative shape, leading to the conclusion they want. But they can't pull it off without awkward transitions and bridges, including the perfunctory inclusion of an intrepid reporter who conveniently breezes in and out of the movie long enough to explain Ray's back story aloud. A monstrous scene involving Farrell holding a steaming iron (prop or not) over a baby's face is inexcusable. --Tom Keogh
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 Pride and Glory February 7, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A family of police officers patriarch, two sons, and a son-in-law deals with corruption in a precinct in Washington Heights. Four officers die in an ambush at a drug dealer's apartment. It's brother Francis's precinct, so when the investigation led by brother Ray finds hints of police corruption, there's pressure to close ranks and save Frankie's career. Dad, a police brass, promises Ray that he and Frankie can clean things up, and Ray should focus on catching the drug dealer who killed the cops. Meanwhile, brother-in-law Jimmy, a hothead and an enforcer, is visited at home by a lowlife. "Pride and Glory" is familiar and original at the same time. An honest, gripping drama.
Superb September 15, 2009
D. Mikels (Skunk Holler)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Oh, no. Not another movie about corrupt cops. Hasn't this theme been hashed, rehashed, and overdone ad nauseam? It sure has, but when you get a corrupt cop theme as superbly acted, and a film as skillfully made as PRIDE AND GLORY, you're seeing the wheel being reinvented right before your eyes. This is a tightly-wound, gritty, dirty, ugly depiction of graft, corruption, and greed at its worst; yet it's also a story of devotion and love, as a multi-generational family of New York cops is about to be tested like never before.
Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Colin Farrell, and Noah Emmerich are sensational. What an ensemble! Norton plays a detective investigating the deaths of four cops gunned down in what he learns is a setup, as he uncovers disturbing evidence of widespread graft and corruption on the part of his brother-in-law (Farrell), while his brother, the precinct captain (Emmerich), has been conveniently looking the other way. The family patriarch (Voight) is more interested in his family protecting one another than getting to the truth. Meanwhile, other subplots add to the texture of the story, including a cancer-stricken wife (Jennifer Ehle), and a distraught cop (John Ortiz is exceptional) who breaks the story to the media in a most disturbing manner.
Accordingly, PRIDE AND GLORY examines this litany of complex issues at a frantic pace via marvelous acting. The fate of Farrell's character is jolting, and for me, caught me completely off-guard. But sudden twists and unexpected developments are inherent in a very good tale, which PRIDE AND GLORY most certainly is.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
Pride and Glory DVD March 23, 2010
Manny M. Agah
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A solid and powerful police crime drama with fine cast and script. The 1.85:1 widescreen picture is excellent and enhanced for 16:9 TVs.
The Thin Blue Line December 21, 2008
Uncle Chino (New Zealand)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I thought this was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time that wasn't an action or special effects driven movie. Ed Norton does a great job and Jon Voight is back with a great performance. The cast is top notch including Colin Farrell who I normally don't think is a very good actor. It is about 2 hours long but it is full of enough good dialogue and drama that it didn't really bother me. No holes here. Just a good drama done right.
"Pride and Glory": 10 out of 10; nytimes review: zéro de conduite December 1, 2008
gaetano catelli (soho, nyc)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
{*spoilers*}
there are 2 strongly opposed views of "Pride and Glory": apparently, if you've watched every cops-and-robbers movie that has ever been released, plus the steady diet of police procedurals served up on television nightly, this film might seem like too many others you've already seen. but if, like me, you haven't seen a crime story since, say, "The Departed", then you'll find "Pride and Glory" 2 hours and 10 minutes of ever-building, positively riveting tension that climaxes with satisfying catharsis.
perhaps the nytimes reviewer of this film is in the first category, in which case he might be better off (and readers trying to decide whether to see a particular movie would clearly be better served) if, like the nytimes's incomparable reviewer Janet Maslin, he were to realize that it is time to move on to another subject; one to which his not inconsiderable critical insights and stylistic skill could bring freshness -- rather than cranky ennui.
let's review this movie by unpacking the nytimes review:
"'Pride and Glory,' ... plods across familiar ground .... It's yet another movie about ..."
Partially true. admittedly it's a genre film. (by now, aren't they all?) but, "plods" is as inaccurate as writing that Barack Obama has merely been 'plodding' across the political landscape for the past 2 years. 'tour de force' is more like it.
"Jon Voight -- his face as pink as a Christmas ham, his acting in the same food group ..."
Silly. Voight, as Francis Tierney, Sr, plays an up-from-the-ranks retired Irish cop who's rather fond of bending his elbow. as such, the role calls for someone melanin-challenged who leaves no doubt about what he's really feeling. this was not a part for, say, Ben Kingsley.
"... this highly male-dominated movie ...."
True. movies about rough-and-tumble Irish cops do tend to be "highly male-dominated".
"... Colin Farrell -- jittery displays of misdirected intensity."
Odd. just where *should* a rogue cop whose whole world is coming down around him "direct" his "jittery intensity"?
"... whose hobbies include breeding ..."
Translation: as Tierney, Sr's son-in-law Jimmy, Farrell plays a man with a normal family life.
"'Pride and Glory,' ... is not especially good ..."
False. "Pride and Glory" is *exceptionally* good. in fairness, this particular nytimes review is not especially bad (at least not by comparison with many of the others).
"And the story, while none too fresh ... has a certain rough potency."
Damning with faint praise. being forced to choose between forsaking honor or forsaking family is, indeed, a "none too fresh" dilemma (eg, "On the Waterfront", "High Noon", etc). so what? "Raging Bull" and "Fight Club" also have "a certain rough potency", but to describe them as such would suggest a certain delicate lack of potency.
".... relies a little too much on expository shouting, ..."
True. much too much, for my liking. but then, this movie wasn't intended to be an episode of Masterpiece Theater.
"there are nonetheless some fine details and powerful, tense scenes ... "
actually, there are *a great many* "fine details and powerful, tense scenes". (one wonders: what is that reviewer's *real* problem with this movie?)
"The best stuff can be found around the edges of the main family drama, in subplots and in the supporting performances ..."
Not really. the domestic drama on the suburban home front is great stuff, but the interplay between brother-against-brothers and the life-and-death struggle for hearts and minds in Washington Heights is dramatically greater still.
"Mr. Norton and Mr. Farrell, unfortunately, play to their weaknesses."
Simply wrong! this movie is a perfect vehicle for the enormous *strengths* of both actors: Norton as Tierney Sr's conscience-plagued son Ray, and Farrell as Ray's brother-in-law Jimmy, who is running a crew of drug-dealing cops.
".... the full measure of Mr. Norton's vanity, by far his least appealing attribute."
Wrong-headed. Norton is one of the finest practitioners of his craft, in this or any other time. as such, he's entitled to some vanity (unlike certain movie critics).
"Mr. Farrell, meanwhile, once again indulges his blustery mixture of menace and charm, overdoing both."
Wrong-headed again. a "blustery mixture of menace and charm" is *precisely* what the role of a cop-gone-bad calls for. *Farrell* delivers. the role of a movie review is to accurately describe a movie's intentions and the degree to which these were successfully realized. this nytimes review delivers *neither*.
having gotten virtually everything turned on its head up to this point, the nytimes review attempts to run the table, thus:
"{Noah Emmerich} quietly and guilelessly steals the movie."
this is painful to write. as Ray's brother, Frannie, Noah Emmerich is absolutely superb portraying a loving father of young children and a loving husband to their dying mother (see below). but, if Tierney, Sr seems to be a Frank Sinatra kind of guy, and Ray a Fiddy Cents type, and Jimmy is The Three Tenors sort, then Frannie comes off as an Andrea Bocelli fan. not that there's anything wrong with that (certainly not in my book), but, to this viewer at least, somehow Frannie felt more like a close friend of the family than a member of the clan.
"If only it were worth a little more."
get a life.
"It has violence, swearing, drug references and a bit of pointless nudity."
Partially true. it has too much gore for my taste (possibly because of insufficient "rough potency" on my own part). the verbal vulgarities number in the hundreds, sometimes risibly, as when Jimmy is sitting on the hot seat in an Internal Affairs hearing that he knows is being videotaped for review by higher-ups.
however, the love scene between Frannie Tierney and his wife, Abbie (Jennifer Ehle), is as exquisite as any ever filmed. Abbie's head is shaven; yet, she is still gorgeous on the outside -- while being consumed by terminal cancer on the inside. the couple knows this will be their last 'Christmas present' to each other. the scene was so moving that i honestly forgot that it contains just a smidgeon of nudity (notwithstanding that, *pace* Chris Matthews, while watching Miss Ehle "i felt this thrill going up *my* leg").
within this context, to dismiss the whole scene with only 2 words, "pointless nudity", is to give Ebenezer Scrooge a run for his money.
"Pride and Glory" is easily a 5 out of 5.
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