Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

6.5/10 • 103 min • Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Stephen Lang

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Burt Young

Peter Dobson

Christopher Murney

Jerry Orbach

Alexis Arquette

Stephen Baldwin

John Costelloe

Ricki Lake

Frank Military

Camille Saviola

Jason Andrews

James Lorinz

Sam Rockwell

Maia Danziger

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Once Upon a Time in America

The Only Living Boy in New York

Midnight Cowboy

American Pastoral

Motherless Brooklyn

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Charm City Kings

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