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Dernière sortie pour Brooklyn

Original title: Last Exit to Brooklyn
  • 1989
  • 16
  • 1h 42m
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6.8/10
6.8K
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Jennifer Jason Leigh in Dernière sortie pour Brooklyn (1989)
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.
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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. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexu... Read allSet 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.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.

  • Director
    • Uli Edel
  • Writers
    • Hubert Selby Jr.
    • Desmond Nakano
  • Stars
    • Jennifer Jason Leigh
    • Stephen Lang
    • Burt Young
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    6.8K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Uli Edel
    • Writers
      • Hubert Selby Jr.
      • Desmond Nakano
    • Stars
      • Jennifer Jason Leigh
      • Stephen Lang
      • Burt Young
    • 67User reviews
    • 36Critic reviews
    • 62Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 1 nomination

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    Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Rockwell, Jason Andrews, and Peter Dobson in Dernière sortie pour Brooklyn (1989)
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    Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Jennifer Jason Leigh
    • Tralala
    Stephen Lang
    Stephen Lang
    • Harry Black
    Burt Young
    Burt Young
    • Big Joe
    Peter Dobson
    Peter Dobson
    • Vinnie
    Jerry Orbach
    Jerry Orbach
    • Boyce
    Stephen Baldwin
    Stephen Baldwin
    • Sal
    Jason Andrews
    • Tony
    James Lorinz
    James Lorinz
    • Freddy
    Sam Rockwell
    Sam Rockwell
    • Al
    Maia Danziger
    Maia Danziger
    • Mary Black
    Camille Saviola
    Camille Saviola
    • Ella
    Ricki Lake
    Ricki Lake
    • Donna
    Cameron Johann
    Cameron Johann
    • Spook
    John Costelloe
    John Costelloe
    • Tommy
    Christopher Murney
    Christopher Murney
    • Paulie
    Frank Acciarito
    • Eddie
    • (as Frank Acciarto)
    Lisa Passero
    • Teresa
    Mike Cicchetti
    • Brickowski
    • Director
      • Uli Edel
    • Writers
      • Hubert Selby Jr.
      • Desmond Nakano
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      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."
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Bird on a Wire/Last Exit to Brooklyn/Back to the Future Part III/Cadillac Man/Longtime Companion (1990)
    • Soundtracks
      Be Ba-ba Le-ba
      Written and Performed by Helen Humes

      Courtesy of CEMA Special Markets/EMI Records, Inc.

    User reviews67

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    9/10
    The Opposite of Pleasantville
    Did you ever notice that if you were to show a film to after dinner friends, all too often what you bring out is a work that might not make a list of your personal top ten favorite movies? This is one of those films. Very postwar early 50's, but a 1950's Donna Reed would have been lost in. It truly is the opposite of Pleasantville.

    Hubert Selby's dark vision of the common man is woven around several characters in a Brooklyn neighborhood. A factory worker called Big Joe is played by Burt Young. Instinctively brutal yet pathetically naive, he wanders through his Brooklyn neighborhood functioning at the most elemental level reinforced only by an inherited value system to which he is single-mindedly loyal. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a whore whose timeline for thoughts of her future stretches out only several hours. She gets by in life rolling drunks whose tolerance for liquor is less than hers, or giving sex to those who outlast her. A soldier soon to be shipped out takes her to Manhattan for his last few stateside days and falls in love with her. Tralala (Leigh's character) recognizes the attendant lust but has no clue about the implications of his love. As she sees him off, the Lieutenant hands her an envelope. Tra's face lights up as her vision of the order in life (she gives him sex, he has a good time, he gives her money) seems to have been reaffirmed. When the envelope turns out to contain a lengthy love letter she doesn't become angry or disappointed, just confused.

    In addition to Leigh and Young, powerful performances are turned in by Jerry Orbach (the corrupt union boss), Stephen Lang (the closet homosexual strike-line foreman), Stephen Baldwin (a street punk), Ricki Lake (Big Joe's very pregnant daughter), and Alexis Arquette (the teen-age transvestite).

    The soundtrack is excellent and unobtrusive and Uli Edel's direction insightful. You need a strong stomach to watch it and quite a bit of dedication to find it, but it's well worth the effort.
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    • Oct 25, 2005

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    • Release date
      • October 25, 1989 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • West Germany
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Dernière sortie pour Brooklin
    • Filming locations
      • Bavaria Studios, Bavariafilmplatz 7, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • Allied Filmmakers
      • Bavaria Film
      • Constantin Film
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,730,005
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $186,489
      • May 6, 1990
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,730,005
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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