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May 4, 1990 · 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. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.
- 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.
Watch Last Exit to Brooklyn with a subscription on Prime Video, rent on Fandango at Home, or buy on Fandango at Home. A homosexual factory worker (Stephen Lang) and a teenage hooker...
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- Uli Edel
- R
- Stephen Lang
May 11, 1990 · The movie takes place in a Brooklyn neighborhood torn by a bitter strike; most of the men work at the factory, and are unemployed by the dispute, but for Harry Black ( Stephen Lang ), a worker who has been hired to run the strike office, these are good times.
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.
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 the Red Hook...