Pride and Glory is a 2008 American crime drama film directed by Gavin O'Connor, and starring Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight and Noah Emmerich.
Assistant Chief Francis Tierney Sr. heads a multigenerational NYPD family: his son Francis "Franny" Jr. is Deputy Inspector and commanding officer of the 31st Precinct, where son-in-law Sergeant Jimmy Egan is a patrol officer, while son Ray is a detective who transferred to the Missing Persons Squad after being shot during an arrest two years earlier.
As Jimmy leads the NYPD to victory in city-league football, Franny is notified that four of his officers have been killed at the Washington Heights apartment of drug dealer Angel Tezo.
Unbeknownst to Ray, Jimmy and fellow officers Kenny Dugan, Reuben "Sandy" Santiago, and Eddie Carbone find the cab, abandoned by Tezo after shooting the driver.
Ray tries to reconnect with Tasha, his soon-to-be-ex-wife, while Carbone shakes down a bodega owner for Tezo's whereabouts, beating and robbing the man at gunpoint.
Francis Sr. is furious with his son for jeopardizing the department, but Ray reveals that he did enough lying for his father regarding the shooting two years earlier, when officers threw a suspect off a building.
In the street, surrounded by Coco and the crowd, a handcuffed Jimmy offers himself to be beaten to death, and a helpless Ray staggers back to Franny.
Gavin O'Connor and his twin brother Greg began writing the film with New York City police officer Robert A.
[7] Nick Nolte was on set at the start of filming to play Francis Tierney Sr., but after a chronic knee injury flared up, he was unable to perform and was replaced by Voight.
[9] Cinematographer Declan Quinn said that the biggest challenge was "[trying] to find a fresh way to do a police drama where it feels real and not like something we've seen a hundred times before.
Norton blamed a wider industry "paralysis" for the problems, rather than New Line Cinema: "We're a victim of the moment, and I just hope they will either find a way to give the film its due or graciously let us do it with someone else."
[16] In North America, the film opened at #5 with $6,262,396 behind High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Saw V, Max Payne, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua,[17] respectively, from 2,585 theaters with a $2,423 average.