Pride and Glory
Headline: ** Where's the Beef? **
Title: PRIDE AND GLORY
Quality: * * Acceptability: -3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VVV
Sex: SS
Nudity: NN
RATING: R
RELEASE: October 17, 2008
TIME: 125 minutes
STARRING: Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Colin Farrell, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle, and John Ortiz
DIRECTOR: Gavin O'Connor
PRODUCERS: Gregory O'Connor
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Toby Emmerich, Cale Boyter and Marcus Viscidi
WRITER: Joe Carnahan and Gavin O'Connor
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. Pictures/Time Warner
CONTENT: (B, HH, C, LLL, VVV, SS, NN, AAA, DDD, MM) Light moral worldview set in a very dark, sinful, corrupt, cruel, gang-infested society where many characters are humanist and mean, with a Christian funeral, one references to a person's gifts being from God, a lot of denials of the influence of faith by some characters, especially the villains; 256 obscenities and 16 profanities; ultra violence and threats of violence including man threatens to burn baby with hot iron, police shove nightstick down man's throat, many fights, pointblank shootings, and pistol whippings (even of women), cruel intentional violence; drug addicted woman starts making love to man who's just been operated on, many references to sex; full upper female nudity in one scene and many lingerie shots; extreme alcohol use including drunkenness and character is drunk half the time; extreme drug use and selling drugs shown; and, corrupt cops, cheating, stealing.
GENRE: Police Drama
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Adults
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SUMMARY: PRIDE AND GLORY is the story of a New York City police detective whose investigation into the murder of four police officers leads to his brother and brother-in-law. Despite a promising storyline and worldview, the movie creates so much cruelty, chaos, obscene language, and evil that it almost buries the story it's trying to tell.
IN BRIEF:
PRIDE AND GLORY is the story of a New York City police family starring Edward Norton, Jon Voight and Colin Farrell. While most police are watching a police football game, four policemen are caught in an ambush in a dark area of the city. The victims belonged to the division headed by Detective Francis Tierney. His father, the chief of Manhattan detectives, also Francis, forces his brother Ray to lead the investigation. As Ray investigates, he finds out the corruption leads all the way up to his brother and brother-in-law. Eventually, he must decide whether to keep the thin blue line code of silence or observe a higher law and do the right thing.
This storyline sounds promising, but the movie wallows in so much cruelty, chaos and evil that it almost buries the morality tale. Instead of justice being done, the New York Police gang ends up fighting against the street gangs. With all the cruelty and violence, the plot fades to insignificance and many times the movie feels boring, because you don't care about the characters. PRIDE AND GLORY also contains a super-abundance of excessive obscene curse words.
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