Last Exit to Brooklyn

(1989)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 121 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1989

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Director: Ули Эдель

Cast: Стивен Лэнг, Дженнифер Джейсон Ли, Бёрт Янг, Peter Dobson, Кристофер Мёрни, Джерри Орбак, Алексис Аркетт, Stephen Baldwin, John Costelloe, Cameron Johann

Plot

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: 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.

Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.'s controversial novel set in early 1950s Brooklyn. During a bitter strike by workers against a local factory, a gallery of struggling characters are crushed by their squalid surroundings and selves: an unhappily married union strike leader discovers he is gay; a jaded prostitute falls in love with one of her clients, a naive young sailor; a union negotiator attempts to peacefully resolve the strike while desperately hiding the fact that he's a communist; the family of a striking factory worker cannot cope with the fact that their teenage daughter is illegitimately pregnant.