Pride and Glory (2008)
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Critic Consensus: Formulaic in its plotting and cliched in its dialogue, Pride and Glory does little to distinguish itself from other police procedurals.
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Cast
as Ray Tierney
as Jimmy Egan
as Francis Tierney Sr.
as Francis Tierney Jr.
as Abby Tierney
as Ruben Santiago
as Eddie Carbone
as Kenny Dugan
as Megan Egan
as Eladio Casado
as Coco Dominguez
as Bill Avery
as Tasha
as Carlos Bragon
as Maureen Tierney
as Caitlin Tierney
as Francis Tierney
as Bailey Tierney
as Shannon Egan
as Matthew Egan
as Tookie Brackett
as Lisette Rivera
as Mayor Arthur Caffey
as Detective Miller
as Corner Store Owner
as Angelique Dominguez
as Reverend Farraud
as Trish Mercer
as Bodega Owner
as Bodega Owner's Wife
as Bodega Boy
as Dr. Khomar
as Dominican Thug
as Dominican Thug
as Chaplin
as Captain Lavier
as Investigator Lieberthal
as NYPD Coach Kowalski
as NYPD Offensive Coordinator
as NYPD Defensive Coordinator
as Detroit Metro Coach
as Detroit Metro Assistant Coach
as NYPD Football Player
as Duty Captain Banks
as Detective
as Detective
as Detective
as DEA Representative
as Lieutenant Fricker
as Task Force Lieutenant
as Task Force Detective
as Task Force Detectives
as Uniform Cop
as Patrol Sergeant
as Patrol Cop
as Patrol Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Crime Scene Cop
as Desk Lietenant
as Arresting Police Officer
as Crime Scene Detective
as Chief
as Police Officer Dillin
as Lonnie Mercer
as Domenguez Mother
as TV News Anchor
as News Reporter
as News Reporter Dehaven
as Reporter
as EMT
as Girl in Bar
as Thug Kid
as Thug Kid
as Thug Kid
as Thug Kid
as Thug Kid
as Cavanaugh
as Dugan's Wife
as Paramedic
as Doctor
as Dominican Perp
as Woman On Stairs
as Bragon Receptionist
as Arvell "Amp" Poines
as Driver
as Dominican Bodega Customer
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Critic Reviews for Pride and Glory
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What it lacks in subtlety and intelligence it makes up in violence, brutishness, and hackneyed story lines. These are qualities best enjoyed at home.
Bloody, violent and increasingly derivative, 'Pride and Glory' betrays its initial promise as a small-scale, 'Godfather'-esque social tapestry with crude plotting, variable acting and an all-too-guessable storyline and conclusion.
It's yet another movie about familial strife in the New York City Police Department. If you think you've seen it all before, you have.
Pride and Glory is full of interesting little grace notes, and the cast is excellent, yet it grows more and more frustrating. It has everything going for it except a story that doesn't send the audience out miles ahead of the plot developments.
Pride's only saving grace is Edward Norton, whose mere presence raises the level of a film several notches. But it's unclear why he lately has chosen such worn-out material.
There's nothing really wrong with Pride and Glory, apart from an excessive degree of brutality, but there's nothing terribly revelatory about it either.
Audience Reviews for Pride and Glory
Stinks of desperation, and a particular kind: wishing it were one of the many better movies in this genre. This film is effectively a knock-off of everything from In the Heat of the Night to Training Day, or The Departed, or even We Own the Night: good brother/bad brother, good cop/bad cop, whole families on the force. The other place this film steals from is Dennis Lehane: it felt like a poor cousin of Clint Eastwood's Mystic River or even Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone. Edward Norton has long been one of my favourite actors, but since the turn of the century, he's chosen increasingly worse projects. A shame, because he's pretty good in this, and so is Colin Farrell, though he's a bit too Irish-sounding in some scenes. The movie could easily have been a half hour shorter: there are too many balls in the air to juggle (a sister dying of cancer is a good motivator, but I don't think we need to see so much of her story), and the writing is brutal, watery exposition, laying bare every character's every motivation and draining most of the tension out of what should have been a gritty, realistic film. I've seen first-hand that Washington Heights can be a scary place, and the way it looks on-screen is to the film's credit. Unfortunately, the rest of the work falls flat, until Sage Francis's song over the opening credits, which actually hammers home a metaphor from earlier about a leaky boat. Too bad that most people won't hear this song, having turned the movie off midway. I kind of wish that I had.
Super Reviewer
There's good, gritty filmmaking on display here and there are moments reminiscent of some of the genre's greats, but "Pride and Glory" gets completely bogged down by a muddy screenplay that kicks off to a great start, but soon becomes more and more confused, tedious, and in the end... generic. The performances and direction hint at a better movie, but in the end that just makes this deeply flawed effort all the more disappointing.
Super Reviewer
A good cop drama about a family in the force, thrown into an awkward position when a case exposes some dirty cops from their precinct. A very enjoyable film, with a well assembled cast. Might be a little confusing at the start as to who is bad and who isn't though. It doesn't have a great deal of action but it's still a good story well told.
Super Reviewer
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