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    Last Exit to Brooklyn

    R1989 · Drama · 1h 42m

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      • Though unrelentingly bleak, Last Exit to Brooklyn presents a fascinating slice of American history, showcasing the plight of the poor without falling into the trap of romanticising their struggle. Packed with wit and energy, it remains involving throughout.
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  2. May 11, 1990 · When Tralala (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the local prostitute, lures the boys from the Brooklyn naval yard into the vacant lots where she works, it's not for sex - it's so neighborhood guys can mug the young draftees and roll them. Tralala gets beaten up a lot, too, both physically and mentally.

  3. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. 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
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    • Stephen Lang
  4. May 2, 1990 · Uli Edel's ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' is a good, dark, uncommonly evocative screen adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s teeming novel, published in 1964, about life on the edge in...

    • Uli Edel
  5. Last Exit to Brooklyn Review. A gallery of Brooklyn's finest and filthiest undergo change (a hooker falls in love with her clients, a union boss discovers he's gay)against an imposing...

  6. German director Eli Edel has fashioned a grim yet coherent and extremely well acted tale out of Hubert Selby's 1964 collection of short stories about misfits, criminals and outsiders in...

  7. The film has a 67% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 critics' reviews. Though critics noted the film's unrelenting bleakness and how it is not an easy watch, Last Exit to Brooklyn was also praised for Uli Edel's direction and the performances of its actors.

  8. 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. Read More. By Staff (Not Credited) FULL REVIEW.

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