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      • During a bitter strike by workers against a local factory, a gallery of struggling characters are crushed by their squalid surroundings and selves: an unhappily married union strike leader discovers he is gay; a jaded prostitute falls in love with one of her clients, a naive young sailor; a union negotiator attempts to peacefully resolve the strike while desperately hiding the fact that he's a communist; the family of a striking factory worker cannot cope with the fact that their teenage...
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  2. Last Exit to Brooklyn: Directed by Uli Edel. With Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson. Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers.

    • (7.1K)
    • Drama
    • Uli Edel
    • 1990-05-04
  3. Plot. In 1952 Brooklyn, workers have entered the sixth month of a strike against the local factory. Shop steward Harry Black relishes his new role as the strike secretary as it allows him to get out of the house, away from his wife who does not realize that Harry is gay.

  4. May 11, 1990 · Tragedies are about people who seek love in unhappy times. “Last Exit to Brooklyn” makes a point of taking place in the early 1950s, when all of the escape routes had been cut off for its major characters.

  5. Summaries. Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual. Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.'s controversial novel set in early 1950s Brooklyn.

  6. Last Exit to Brooklyn. A homosexual factory worker (Stephen Lang) and a teenage hooker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) symbolize the damned in 1952 Brooklyn. Watch Last Exit to Brooklyn with a...

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    • Uli Edel
    • R
    • Stephen Lang
  7. A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a...

  8. May 2, 1990 · ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' is an epic of the dispossessed, set in a land where it is always night and where community spirit means gang rape in the vacant lot behind the diner.