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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. [4] [5] [6] The film is an international co-production between Germany, the UK, and the United States. [5] [4] The story is set in 1950s Brooklyn and takes place against the backdrop of a labor strike.
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
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 spare, stripped-down prose. [1] Critics and fellow writers praised the book on its release.
- Hubert Selby
- 1964
Overview. 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 family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
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.
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 subscription on Prime Video,...
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- Drama
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