Last Exit To Brooklyn
The movie tells some stories that happens in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood: 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.
17 March 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
5 November 1968, Daly City, California, USA
23 February 1961, San Francisco, California, USA
12 September 1958, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
23 May 1962, New Jersey, USA
5 February 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 May 1966, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
12 April 1950, New York City, New York, USA
6 May 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
December 6, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA
23 July 1928, Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 September 1951, Columbus, Ohio, USA
13 October 1942, Riga, Latvia
18 November 1914, New York City, New York, USA
September 07, 2011
For the most part, Edel captures the harrowing grim tone of the book and the compassion the author had for his unsympathetic flawed characters.
December 29, 2011
Cinematic style and Jennifer Jason Leigh make this worth watching.
November 25, 2010
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.
February 07, 2003
The pockmarked buildings have a peeling grayness, as if some forgotten battle had been waged there and dulled everything in its wake.
March 08, 2004
So bleak a vision as to be obsessive and ultimately shallow.
