Last Exit to Brooklyn
Summary:
Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama. The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers. Harry Black (Stephen Lang), a machinist put in charge of the local union strike office, suddenly find... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Stephen Lang - (Harry Black)
Jennifer Jason Leigh - (Tralala)
Burt Young - (Big Joe)
Peter Dobson - (Vinnie)
Jerry Orbach - (Boyce)
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Review:
Although it features crime of only the most petty sort -- drugs, prostitution, and civil disobedience -- this stylish, haunting drama is as noirish as they come. Discontentment and desperation hound these characters like a hot summer wind, while their sexual obsessions almost invariably lead to ruin. Occasional glimpses of working-class joy a... Continue >>
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