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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

20 Apr

102m; U.S.

Director: Uli Edel

Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang and Burt Young

Synopsis (IMDB): Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.’s controversial novel. A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

 

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