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Last Exit to Brooklyn
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Hubert Selby Jr. (book)
Desmond Nakano (screenplay)
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Release Date:
4 May 1990 (USA) more
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The Novel That Shocked The World Is Now A Movie.
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Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers... more | add synopsis
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6 wins more
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Letzte Ausfahrt Brooklyn (West Germany)
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102 min
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Ralph Bakshi had made a previous attempt to direct the film, a production he was to co-produce with Steve Krantz and author Hubert Selby Jr. Actor Robert De Niro accepted a major role in the film. However, the project fell apart when Bakshi and Krantz had a falling out. Bakshi and Selby became friends, and, according to Bakshi, they "tried a few other screenplays after that on other subjects, but I could not shake Last Exit from my mind." more
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A shattering slice of life, 30 June 2000
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Author: ewa-3 from United States

One of Leigh's best performances in a role that seemed to be written for her. You are rooting for her or ANYONE among the denizens of the strikebound Brooklyn docks to find a way to a better life but at the same time know that no one will make it. The Pieta like still-life after the climatic was a wonderful comment on both the content of the movie itself and the searing quality that some art can have.

It is on my list of most depressing movies, which includes "The Damned", "The Pawnbroker", "The Night Porter".

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