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Last Exit to Brooklyn

The Novel That Shocked The World Is Now A Movie

Rating 6.5 / 10Release July 26, 1989Runtime 103 min

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.

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