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May 4, 1990 · A 1989 drama film based on Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel, set in 1950s Brooklyn. It depicts the lives of prostitutes, gangs, strikers and homosexuals in a violent and corrupt city.
- Uli Edel
- 66
- 3 min
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
- 320 pp
- 1964
- 1964
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.
May 11, 1990 · A bleak and depressing drama based on Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel, set in 1950s Brooklyn amid a strike, prostitution, homosexuality and violence. Roger Ebert praises the strong performances and the lack of comforting endings, but questions what really upset the censors.
67% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 74% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings 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 their struggles with union corruption, violence, homosexuality, pregnancy, and communism.
May 2, 1990 · Its wit is savage. Like Mr. Selby's prose, the film is vivid but remains slightly detached from the brutality it observes. In this detachment, however, there is an unusual honesty, often frowned...
