We Own the Night is a 2007 American action thriller film[4] directed and written by James Gray, co-produced by and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg, and co-starring Eva Mendes and Robert Duvall.

In 1988 Brooklyn, New York, Robert "Bobby" Grusinsky is the manager of the El Caribe nightclub in Brighton Beach, which is owned by his boss, fur importer Marat Buzhayev, whose nephew, drug lord Vadim Nezhinski, is a patron of the joint.

Estranged from his father Albert ("Burt"), an NYPD Deputy Chief, and brother Joseph, a newly-minted Captain, Bobby uses his late mother Carol's maiden name, Green, as a part of his work alias and opts to live a life of pleasure with his girlfriend Amada Juarez and best friend Louis "Jumbo" Falsetti, with a plan to soon run his own club in Manhattan.

That evening, a masked Vadim shoots Joseph in the face outside his house and firebombs his car, causing him to be confined at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for 4 months.

The bond between Bobby and Amada decays while they are in hiding at the Kew Motor Inn, and they prep for a move to the Corona Hotel after Vadim flees from Rikers Island on March 20, 1989.

Bobby passes out in the rain upon seeing his body, awakens a few hours later atop a bed in a suite at the Sheraton near Kennedy Airport, and grieves when Joseph tells him that Burt is dead.

Amada breaks up with Bobby once he chooses to join the NYPD to avenge his father's tragic death, upset because he neglected to ask for her input or consent prior to pursuing such a risky change of career.