Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 4
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 2
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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 finds himself one of the most important men in town. But for all his sudden power, there's something disturbing Harry. He
Jan 1, 1989 Wide
Dec 19, 1990
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Cast
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Stephen Lang
Harry Black -
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Tralala -
Burt Young
Big Joe -
Peter Dobson
Vinnie -
Jerry Orbach
Boyce -
Alexis Arquette
Georgette -
Stephen Baldwin
Sal -
Cameron Johann
Spook -
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Rutanya Alda
Georgette's Mother -
Jason Andrews
Tony -
Daniel Beer
Tral's Trick -
Mark Boone Jr.
Willie -
Joseph Carberry
Uptown Bartender -
John Costelloe
Tommy -
Christopher Curry
Riot Police Officer -
Maia Danziger
Mary Black -
Colleen Flynn
Ruthie -
Ray Gill
Dowland -
James Harper
Cop -
Robert Kramer
Fred -
Ricki Lake
Donna -
James Lorinz
Freddy -
Frank Military
Steve -
Christopher Murney
Paulie -
Michael O'Hare
Riot Police Officer -
Lisa Passero
Teresa -
Hubert Rechy
Hit-Run Driver -
Sam Rockwell
Al -
Camille Saviola
Ella -
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Bruce Smolanoff
Lost Soldier -
Sylvie Spector
Submarine Annie -
Mike Starr
Security Guard -
Frank Vincent
Priest -
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Robert Weil
Alex -
Zette Sullivan
Regina -
Hubert Selby Jr.
Hit-Run Driver -
Bob Martana
Truck Driver
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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (4) | DVD (6)
Cinematic style and Jennifer Jason Leigh make this worth watching.
For the most part, Edel captures the harrowing grim tone of the book and the compassion the author had for his unsympathetic flawed characters.
German director Eli Edel has fashioned a grim yet coherent and extremely well acted tale out of Hubert Selby's 1964 collection of short stories about misfits, criminals and outsiders in Brooklyn's Red Hook, circa 1952.
So bleak a vision as to be obsessive and ultimately shallow.
The pockmarked buildings have a peeling grayness, as if some forgotten battle had been waged there and dulled everything in its wake.
Audience Reviews for Last Exit to Brooklyn
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As watchable as it is, "Last Exit to Brooklyn" is also very much an odd duck, taking Hubert Selby's novel of down and out Brooklyn life in the 1950's and showing it through a European prism. So, even with an American cast that includes Jerry Orbach and a couple of stunning set pieces, it still feels a little off. On the one hand, the movie desperately wants to be provocative in its use of sex and violence. While it might also seem it is about loss of innocence, it is only in perception, like Big Joe not being aware that his daughter is not a virgin, much less very pregnant. Or maybe this is how it really was, except no police have ever responded to a call that quickly.
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Foreign Titles
- Letzte Ausfahrt Brooklyn (DE)
