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Last Exit to Brooklyn

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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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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/01/2000
3.5/4
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. Go to Full Review
Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) 11/29/2022
It is extremely sad and desolating, a spectacle of mass human desecration. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Michael Bronski Gay Community News (Boston) 08/29/2022
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. Go to Full Review
Peter Bowen OutWeek 05/20/2020
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. Go to Full Review
James Plath Movie Metropolis 12/29/2011
7/10
Cinematic style and Jennifer Jason Leigh make this worth watching. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 09/07/2011
B
For the most part, Edel captures the harrowing grim tone of the book and the compassion the author had for his unsympathetic flawed characters. Go to Full Review
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Katl L Jun 1 Kept looking for a character to like. Not a decent human being to be found. First movie I've ever seen where I hated every character. See more Stephen J Jan 13 At first I thought this movie was overproduced. For example, the settings / scenes are almost unrealistic? But stick with it. The story does have some deep realities to it. Edit: my original post, above, was written before the movie ended. I'm in the last 20 minutes and bumped my rating up from 3.5 to 4.5 stars. This movie doesn't excellent job of the realities that some of us fall into. Incredible, and sad, and scary. See more Steve D 09/07/2023 sometimes frustrating but ahead of its time. See more anne H 11/07/2022 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. See more delysid d 03/23/2022 unpleasant from start to finish, horrible See more 01/29/2022 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) See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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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