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Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1989 drama film directed by Uli Edel and adapted by Desmond Nakano from Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1964 novel of the same title. The film is an international co-production between Germany, the UK, and the United States. The story is set in 1950s Brooklyn and takes place against the backdrop of a labor strike.
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in a brusque, everyman style of prose.
- Hubert Selby
- 1964
May 4, 1990 · A 1989 drama film based on Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel about the dark side of 1950s Brooklyn. See cast, crew, plot, reviews, trivia, awards, and more on IMDb.
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- Drama
- Uli Edel
- 1990-05-04
May 11, 1990 · A bleak and depressing drama based on Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel, set in 1950s Brooklyn amid a strike, violence, and sexual repression. Roger Ebert praises the strong performances and the lack of easy endings, but questions the obscenity charges against the book and the movie.
A homosexual factory worker (Stephen Lang) and a teenage hooker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) symbolize the damned in 1952 Brooklyn.
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- Uli Edel
- R
- Stephen Lang
Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.
A film adaptation of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s novel about the lives of working-class people in 1950s Brooklyn. It depicts union corruption, violence, homosexuality, prostitution, and pregnancy in a bleak and realistic way.
