Pride and Glory (2008) on Netflix
R20082h 10mCrimeDramaMysteryThriller
Ray Tierney, a Missing Persons detective, joins the task force investigating four officers shot dead at a Washington Heights apartment. The victims served in a precinct commanded by his brother.
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- IMDb6.6/1065,895 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes35%
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Plot summary
Francis Tierney Sr., an assistant chief, heads the Tierney family of police officers in New York City. His son Franny Jr. is a deputy inspector commanding the 31st Precinct, where son-in-law Jimmy Eagan is a patrol officer. Another son, Ray, is a Missing Persons detective. Four of Franny's officers are found shot dead at the Washington Heights apartment of the drug dealer Angel Tezo. Francis Sr. brings Ray onto the task force investigating the killings. At the scene Ray finds Tezo's cellphone, and a young witness describes a wounded Tezo taking a cab at gunpoint.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pride and Glory (2008)
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- Nick Nolte was on set at the start of filming to play Francis Tierney Sr., but a chronic knee injury left him unable to perform and Jon Voight replaced him. Nolte later wrote in his memoir that he quit the film because he couldn't stand Edward Norton's "cocky" attitude.
- Pride and Glory drew accusations of racist stereotyping of Dominican Americans; Latino Review writer El Mayimbe called it "a modern-day minstrel show" and said every Dominican character was slapped, punched or otherwise dehumanized, with no redeeming representation.
- In January 2008 New Line Cinema pushed the release to 2009, citing Edward Norton's The Incredible Hulk and Colin Farrell's In Bruges; Gavin O'Connor blamed chairman Bob Shaye, and said he would withhold delivery of his next script, Warrior, until he learned the film's fate.
- The film's development stalled until 2005: the September 11, 2001 attacks were cited as the primary reason, since the notion of doing what might be deemed an anti-cop film, particularly an attack on the NYPD, would have been "grounds for hanging."
- Mark Wahlberg and Hugh Jackman were in talks to star in 2002, when production was expected to start in New York City after the project's rights were ceded to Intermedia in a turnaround deal.
