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Last Exit to Brooklyn

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Stephen Lang

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Burt Young

Peter Dobson

Christopher Murney

Jerry Orbach

Alexis Arquette

Stephen Baldwin

John Costelloe

Cameron Johann

Ricki Lake

Frank Military

Camille Saviola

Bernard Zette

Jason Andrews

James Lorinz

Sam Rockwell

Maia Danziger

Frankie Acciarito

Lisa Passero

Mike Cicchetti

Nicholas J. Giangiulio

Robi Martin

Sarah Rose

Julian Alexon

Robert Weil

Mark Boone Junior

Sylvie Spector

Colleen Flynn

David Warshofsky

Daniel O'Shea

Daniel Beer

Rutanya Alda

Al Shannon

Bruce Smolanoff

James McDonald

Andrew Van Dusen

James Harper

Ray Gill

Mike Starr

Christopher Curry

Michael O'Hare

Bob Martana

Joseph Carberry

John M. Bennett

Bill Mondy

Frank Vincent

Brent Katz

Marc Ryan

Rob Kramer

Hubert Selby Jr.

Jerry Rector

Uli Edel

Bernd Eichinger

Mark Knopfler

Stefan Czapsky

Peter Przygodda

Herman Weigel

Dieter Meyer

G. Mac Brown

Anna Gross

Jake Eberts

Danny Aiello III

Bill Anagnos

Paul Bucossi

Roy Farfel

Tim Gallin

Donald J. Hewitt Jr.

Phil Neilson

Mick O'Rourke

Janet Paparazzo

Don Picard

Manny Siverio

Tom Wright

Don French

Carla Corwin

Glen Trotiner

Philippe Carr-Forster

Danny Michael

Richard von Ernst

Peter R. Adam

Nike Zachmanoglou

Sylvia Fay

Patricia Woodbridge

Bruce Lee Gross

Leigh Kyle

David W. Howell

Dan Mahon

Will Scheck

Zoran Veselić

Claudia Raschke

Anthony Starbuck

Sally Lesser

David C. Robinson

Jennifer Lax

Kathryn Bihr

James Sarzotti

Michael Maddi

Milan Bor

Eva Claudius

Lilli von Otting

Anne Stein

Angelika Deumling

Angelike Gruber

Veronica Manchot

Mel Kutbay

Jörn Poetzl

Bernd Schmidl

Andreas Schneider

George Gonneau

Jery Hewitt

Steve Kirshoff

William Harrison

Denis Zack

Howard Samuelsohn

K.C. Bailey

Stefan Scholtissek

Werner Achmann

Britta Sell

Ed Parente

Günther Ruckdeschel

Georgette Künsemüller

Karl-Heinz Vogelmann

Guy Fletcher

Desmond Nakano

Deborah Aquila

Jeffery Passero

David Chapman

Carol Oditz

Mark Haack

Leslie A. Pope

"Last Exit to Brooklyn" treats its many unseemly social and sexual issues in an unflinching and unashamedly forthright manner, but even more than this it is the generous assortment of heartless characters inhabiting this sordid and squalid depiction of Brooklyn which almost makes the whole film unwatchable while simultaneously creating the biggest impression of all. They embody the worst and the most close-minded and negative people to be found on the face of the planet. However, such unsettling repugnance is also strangely compelling and fascinating and it has been brilliantly brought to the screen with great skill and expertise to produce one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and unforgettably assaultive motion pictures of the 1980's.

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Set amidst some fairly violent industrial turmoil, this potpourri of stories focuses on some of the diversity that existed, though it didn’t necessarily thrive, in 1950s NYC. The local factory is the centre of the troubles as the dockers take strike action, galvanised by their leaders “Harry” (Stephen Lang) and the manipulative “Boyce” (Jerry Orbach). Meantime, the striking in an altogether different manner “Tralala” (Jennifer Jason Leigh) rather menacingly plies her feminine wares on the unsuspecting but horned up military until she begins to fall a little for one of her more decent uniformed clientele and sees the glimmer of an hope she could escape this cycle of hopelessness. With tensions running high amidst their community, we also discover that the married “Harry” also has a penchant for blokes and that communism and illegitimate children are further stoking the angst in this increasingly diffuse and angry township. The story itself plays out well enough and I felt that both Leigh and Lang played their parts with quite some skill, but somehow there is just too much going on to cram into one hundred minutes and some of the more characterful subplots (i.e. “Big Joe” (Burt Young)) are sidelined or too undercooked to make enough impact on the storyline that Uli Eden has decided to focus on. That said, though, the two principal characters are exposed to the cruelties and double standards of the day in a fashion that looks authentic, gritty and is frequently violent and uncomfortable to watch. Therein lies much of the success of this quite potent look at mob rule and intolerance disguised as democracy and freedom, but on the whole, given the plethora of topics covered in the much more visceral book, I felt it disappointed.

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