Last Exit to Brooklyn

Name: Last Exit to Brooklyn
Genre: Drama
Released: 1990-05-04
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young

19891989
RR
1h 42min

6.8/10

6.1K

Jennifer Jason Leigh in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

Drama

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.

6.8/10

6.1K

Director
- Uli Edel
Writers
- Hubert Selby Jr.(book)
- Desmond Nakano(screenplay)
Stars

Top credits

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Awards
- 6 wins & 1 nomination

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Frank Military in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

Stephen Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Peter Dobson in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.'s controversial novel set in early 1950s Brooklyn. During a bitter strike by workers against a local factory, a gallery of struggling characters are crushed by their squalid surroundings and selves: an unhappily married union strike leader discovers he is gay; a jaded prostitute falls in love with one of her clients, a naive young sailor; a union negotiator attempts to peacefully resolve the strike while desperately hiding the fact that he's a communist ; the family of a striking factory worker cannot cope with the fact that their teenage daughter is illegitimately pregnant. —Serdar Yegulalp <syegul@ix.netcom.com>

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Taglines
- The Novel That Shocked The World Is Now A Movie.
Genre
- Drama
Certificate
- R
Parents guide

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 At 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.

Top review

8/10

Violent slice-of-life that lingers in the memory

Working class life in 1950's Brooklyn is disrupted by a strike.

One of these films that seems about nothing in the explaining (the ups and downs of the roughhouse working-class), but is a very powerful piece in the watching and highly recommended.

The film reminded me of an X rated version of American Graffiti where people go about their ordinary lives, but somehow, we become fascinated. While actually shot in West German (when there was one) there are too many real NY character actors for us to notice.

There is fair amount of stupidity and leaching. The male hustler and the whore stick in your mind longer, but the working class morals of all the characters are well observed. Certain scenes actually play no real role in the plot, but add to the feel of time and place.

A lot of people will be shocked by this movie. It is brutally frank and at times violent, but it is never just put there for entertainment. This is an adult picture dealing with adult themes and adult lives. I found it quite hard to watch at times myself, but I think it is an important film and no insult to the classic Selby book which inspired it.

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