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Title: Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Stephen Lang | ... | Harry Black | |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | ... | Tralala | |
| Burt Young | ... | Big Joe | |
| Peter Dobson | ... | Vinnie | |
| Jerry Orbach | ... | Boyce | |
| Stephen Baldwin | ... | Sal | |
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Jason Andrews | ... | Tony |
| James Lorinz | ... | Freddy | |
| Sam Rockwell | ... | Al | |
| Maia Danziger | ... | Mary Black | |
| Camille Saviola | ... | Ella | |
| Ricki Lake | ... | Donna | |
| Cameron Johann | ... | Spook | |
| John Costelloe | ... | Tommy | |
| Christopher Murney | ... | Paulie | |
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. Written by Serdar Yegulalp <syegul@ix.netcom.com>
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a great flick. It's brutal, dark, funny as heck at times, and in the end uplifting. Watching this movie it was hard to imagine this was based on a book from the 50's. A book which explores homosexuality, prostitution, sexual confusion would seem to be almost unheard of subjects in the uptight, Leave It To Beaver 1950's. People who put down this film don't know what they're talking about. The author of the book this movie was based on said himself he thought this was one great adaptation of his novel. And he was sure right. Folks who can handle the dark, brutal films of David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and Tarantino, Scorsese, Kubrick, Hartley and Fosse will dig this movie. But if "You've Got Mail" is your idea fo a great rental, you won't like it a bit. It's just as well, a lot of great, cool films aren't for everyone.