Last Exit to Brooklyn (movie)
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1989 English-language British-German drama movie, directed by Uli Edel, and based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr.[1][2][3]
Last Exit to Brooklyn | |
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Directed by | Uli Edel |
Produced by | Bernd Eichinger |
Written by | Desmond Nakano Hubert Selby Jr. (novel) |
Starring | Stephen Lang Jennifer Jason Leigh Burt Young Peter Dobson Jerry Orbach |
Music by | Mark Knopfler |
Cinematography | Stefan Czapsky |
Edited by | Peter Przygodda |
Distributed by | Summit Entertainment |
Release date | 1989 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | West Germany, UK |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,730,005 (USA) |
Plot
In the 1950s in Brooklyn, a group of prostitutes, unionist activists and drag queens lead difficult lives, an existence of drugs, crime and violence in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood.
References
- ↑ Vincent Canby (May 2, 1990). "A Brutal, Elegiac 'Last Exit,' Unrelieved by Hope". The New York Times.
- ↑ Shelia Benson (May 4, 1990). "A Brutal, Theatrical Mix Runs Through Edel's 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'". The Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Anthony DePalma (April 27, 2004). "Hubert Selby Jr. Dies at 75; Wrote 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'". The New York Times.