Filmography | The Yards (2000)
Character Erica Stoltz
Directed By James Gray
Written By James Gray, Matt Reeves
Cast Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, James Caan, Ellen Burstyn
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating R (for language, violence and a scene of sexuality)
Synopsis
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts. Willie Gutierrez, Leo's best friend, is Frank's bag man and heads a crew of midnight saboteurs who ruin the work of the Puerto Rican-owned firm. Leo needs a job, so Willie pays him to be his back-up. Then things go badly wrong one night, a cop IDs Leo, and everyone now wants him out of the picture. Besides his ailing mom and his cousin Erica, to whom can Leo turn?
Quotes from Charlize
"I'm a huge, huge fan of James Gray's other movie, Little Odessa. I remember seeing the movie and calling my agent, and asking what James Gray was doing purely because of Little Odessa. He was writing The Yards at that time, and I met him. This was two years before the movie even got the green light, and I was an absolute nobody."
"So I met him and I said, I will do your dishes for seven years and mow your lawn if I can be in your next movie. And he said he didn't have a lawn! But I just really wanted to be in his next movie very early on like that."
