Last Exit to Brooklyn

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Last Exit to Brooklyn

R

Released May 4, 1989

1h 42m

Drama

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A homosexual factory worker (Stephen Lang) and a teenage hooker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) symbolize the damned in 1952 Brooklyn.

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Rated: C+

Sep 7, 2011

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

These are fellow human beings who suffer, who are limited in their freedom to imagine greater happiness for themselves, and yet in their very misery they embody human striving.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jan 1, 2000

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Entertainment Weekly

Rated: C+

Jun 1, 1990

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

It is extremely sad and desolating, a spectacle of mass human desecration. [Full review in Spanish]

Nov 29, 2022

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Michael Bronski

Gay Community News (Boston)

Last Exit to Brooklyn is the sort of film you end up respecting rather than liking because it terrorizes your emotions rather than engaging them.

Aug 29, 2022

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Peter Bowen

OutWeek

What makes these stories utterly depressing is not the despair they disclose with routine banality, but the utterly relentless violence the film deploys against any character who even attempts to change his/her fate.

May 20, 2020

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Steve D

sometimes frustrating but ahead of its time.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/07/23

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anne H

I rate this film in my top ten. It is not for the squeamish. It is grim and gritty. Set in the 50's in downbeat Brooklyn it is based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr, (who has a small cameo in the film). The performances are top-notch with Jennifer Jason Leigh as Tralala and Stephen Lang as the troubled Harry Black shining through the bleakness. It really does have that Elia Kazan feel about it from the golden era of American cinema. There are no happy endings or heroes. It is a battle of survival in an insular world of poverty,drugs alcohol and petty crime. Juxtaposed to this is the most beautifully haunting soundtrack by Mark Knopfler.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/11/22

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delysid d

unpleasant from start to finish, horrible

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/21/22

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예전에 봤을 때는 날것인 인간의 상처와 잔혹함에 충격적이었는데, 다시 보니 다소 작위적이고 극단적이다. 강렬했던 몇몇 장면은 여전히 생생했다. 제니퍼 제이슨 리의 독보적 매력. -2022.05.14.다시 봄(-1점)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Steve L

This is an absolutely stellar adaptation of a literary masterpiece. Highly recommended, though it's definitely a trek through many hearts of darkness.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/06/21

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Audience Member

Worst film I have ever seen. Nothing positive to say and avoid at all costs.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Synopsis

A homosexual factory worker (Stephen Lang) and a teenage hooker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) symbolize the damned in 1952 Brooklyn.

Director: Uli Edel
Producer: Bernd Eichinger
Production Co: Allied Filmmakers
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 4, 1989, Original
Release Date (DVD): Oct 10, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.2M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Surround

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