Last Exit to Brooklyn | |
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Directed by | Uli Edel |
Written by | Desmond Nakano Hubert Selby Jr. (novel) |
Produced by | Bernd Eichinger |
Starring | Stephen Lang Jennifer Jason Leigh Burt Young Peter Dobson Jerry Orbach |
Cinematography | Stefan Czapsky |
Edited by | Peter Przygodda |
Music by | Mark Knopfler |
Distributed by | Summit Entertainment |
Release date | 1989 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
Countries | West Germany, UK |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,730,005 (USA) |
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]
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.