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Last Exit to Brooklyn

  • 19891989
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  • 1h 42m
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6.8/10
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Jennifer Jason Leigh in Last Exit to 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.
IMDb RATING
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6.5K
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    • Uli Edel
    • Hubert Selby Jr.(book)
    • Desmond Nakano(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Jennifer Jason Leigh
    • Stephen Lang
    • Burt Young
    • Uli Edel
    • Hubert Selby Jr.(book)
    • Desmond Nakano(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Jennifer Jason Leigh
    • Stephen Lang
    • Burt Young
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    • 62User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
    • 62Metascore
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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 At the Movies: Bird on a Wire/Last Exit to Brooklyn/Back to the Future Part III/Cadillac Man/Longtime Companion (1990)
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    a more violent time
    Having been born in NYC during the late fifties it was important for me to read, see and finally own Last Exit To Brooklyn. Our household was always a violent and unhappy one. None of us lived in the streets like the characters in the film but the violence from there was definitely reflected in our day to day life. Heartwrenchingly faithful to the mood and sentiment of Hubert Selby's important novel I am continuously surprised at how films like this are overlooked in a larger, classic sense. This is not a pleasant film. The German direction and influence put me in mind of Fassbiner's Berlin Alexanderplatz. There was a similar grotesque as well as aesthetic beauty that I found to be very compelling. Most of all, however, I was remarkably impressed by Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance. She gave us the flip side of Marylin Monroe, the antithesis if you will. I'm pretty sure that she has not, as yet, received Oscar recognition and am puzzled how her performance in Last Exit did not get her a nod. This film come highly recommended.
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      • May 4, 1990 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • West Germany
      • United States
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      • Bavaria Studios, Bavariafilmplatz 7, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany
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      • Allied Filmmakers
      • Bavaria Film
      • Constantin Film
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    • 1 hour 42 minutes
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