# Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

> A brutally unsentimental portrait of interconnected lives trapped by labor conflict, sexual repression, poverty, and desperate longing in 1950s Brooklyn.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/7361

## Facts

- Runtime: 103 min
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Uli Edel
- Cast: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Christopher Murney, Jerry Orbach, Alexis Arquette, Stephen Baldwin
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097714/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: extreme
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: brutal
- Mood: bleak, unflinching, oppressive, serious film night, arthouse viewing

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