Last Exit To Brooklyn Details

Last Exit To Brooklyn

Based on Hubert Selby, Jr.'s novel depicting the flip side of the "fabulous fifties" set against a violent dockworkers strike in Brooklyn 1952. The mean and desolate streets of Brooklyn are home to a host of unhappy, hopeless characters stuck in dead-end lives. A young self-destructive prostitute, named Tralala (Jennifer Jason Leigh), emotionally numb from having sold her body so many times, regularly leads her prospective clients to a dark alley where a gang of petty criminals who roam the streets in search of passion and excitement, beats and robs them; Harry, a corrupt union leader who cannot deal with his repressed homosexuality; and a young girl's father refuses to admit that she is eight months pregnant. All these stories take place in a world waiting to explode: local workers are engaged in an angry strike against a nearby factory, while, not too far away at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, soldiers sail daily for Korea, many never to return. The personal and the political intermingle in this bleak look at poverty, drugs and violence in the inner-city in the early 1950s.

Starring	Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Burt Young, Stephen Lang, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach
Director	Ulrich Edel
Studio	METRODOME DVD COLLECTION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 38 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, Gay/Lesbian
Language	English
Released	DVD: 25 Jun 2004 Production year: 1989
Format	DVD