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Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1989 drama film directed by Uli Edel and adapted by Desmond Nakano from Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1964 novel of the same title. The film is an international co-production between Germany, the UK, and the United States. The story is set in 1950s Brooklyn and takes place against the backdrop of a labor strike.
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in a brusque, everyman style of prose. Critics and fellow writers praised the book on its release.
- Hubert Selby
- 1964
May 4, 1990 · A 1989 drama film based on Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel about working-class life in 1950s Brooklyn. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more on IMDb.
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- Drama
- Uli Edel
- 1990-05-04
May 11, 1990 · A bleak and depressing drama based on Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel, set in 1950s Brooklyn amid a strike, violence, and sexual repression. Roger Ebert praises the strong performances and the lack of easy endings, but questions the obscenity charges against the book and the movie.
A homosexual factory worker (Stephen Lang) and a teenage hooker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) symbolize the damned in 1952 Brooklyn.
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- Uli Edel
- R
- Stephen Lang
A film adaptation of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s novel about the lives of working-class people in 1950s Brooklyn. It depicts union corruption, violence, homosexuality, prostitution, and pregnancy in a bleak and realistic way.
May 4, 1990 · Last Exit to Brooklyn is a bleak tour of urban hell, a $16 million Stateside-lensed production of Hubert Selby Jr's controversial 1964 novel. But it doesn't hold a scalpel to the lacerating torrential prose that made the book so cringingly urgent.
