PRIDE AND GLORY

cast: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight

directed by Gavin O Connor

studio: New Line Cinema

release date: 24 OCT, 2008

A cop drama from director Gavin O Connor really gets the buzz thanks to the casting of powerhouses Edward Norton and Collin Farrell together. Add to that names like Jon Voight and Noah Emmerich and you know why this has atleast got the casting right.

Trying to walk the lines of a TRAINING DAY, this movie too looks at the cops and the corruption within the system.

PRIDE AND GLORY tells the story of the Tierney family who is a very important part of the NYPD. While former police chief Francis (Jon Voight) heads the family, his two sons Ray and Francis Jr. (Norton and Emmerich respectively) and his son in low Jimmy Egan (Farrell) are all in the force.

Things go wrong for the family when Francis Jr 's division is killed in a shoot out. Ray gets down to find more about the shoot out and realises that the cops are behind the death. So as Ray takes a plunge into the seedy corrupt police forces, he realises that his findings are not going to exactly bring a smile on everyones faces. Instead it only makes this worse for the Tierney family.

The film has got into enough controversy when the release of the film was held back in March as New Line Cinema got acquired by Warner Bros. The makers were not exactly happy with this decision and was always on the look out to get the film released through a different studio.

So finally they have settled for a FALL release. But the question remains, if the film has enough in it to click at the BO.