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    Last Exit To Brooklyn (1990)

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    Another harrowing detour to hell, not for the squeamish or prudish, this blistering adaptation of Hubert Selby’s shocking short-story collection about violence and suffering in the Brooklyn slums of the early 1950s is like watching a gang rape. You are horrified but unable to do anything about what you’re seeing.

    Here are frank and explicit themes of homosexuality, prostitution, drug addiction, gang warfare, and union corruption that will make even the toughest viewer wince.

    But the acting is superb – especially Jennifer Jason-Leigh as Tralala, a wounded, burned-out whore, and Stephen Lang as Harry Black, a gruff, two-fisted dockworker who discovers his true sexual identity with a fickle drag queen – and the bleak mosaic of Brooklyn’s lower depths has a weird beauty, like a canvas by Brueghel.

    Alexis Arquette (Rosanna’s brother) creates an affecting portrait of Georgette, a transvestite whose longing for the brutal Vinnie (Peter Dobson) leads to disaster.

    Harry Black
    Stephen Lang
    Tralala
    Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Vinnie
    Peter Dobson
    Big Joe
    Burt Young
    Donna
    Ricki Lake
    Boyce
    Jerry Orbach
    Sal
    Stephen Baldwin
    Tony
    Jason Andrews
    Freddy
    James Lorinz
    Al
    Sam Rockwell
    Mary Black
    Maia Danziger
    Ella
    Camille Saviola
    Spook
    Cameron Johann
    Tommy
    John Costelloe
    Paulie
    Christopher Murney
    Georgette
    Alexis Arquette

    Director
    Uli Edel

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