Last Exit to Brooklyn
The Novel That Shocked The World Is Now A Movie
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$0
Box office
$1 730 005
Director
Actors
Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Christopher Murney, Jerry Orbach, Alexis Arquette, Stephen Baldwin, John Costelloe, Cameron Johann
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
David Chapman, Patricia Woodbridge
Audition
Deborah Aquila, Jeffery Passero
Editing
Peter Przygodda
Whole Team (80)
Whole Team (80)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- Jennifer Jason Leigh had to gain 10 kg for the role.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh had to gain 10 kg (22 lbs) for the role.
- Ralph Bakshi attempted to make this film, with himself and Steve Krantz as producers, and Robert De Niro starring in a script by Hubert Selby Jr. Nothing came of it because Bakshi and Krantz had a falling out. Bakshi soon befriended Selby Jr., and they reviewed several scripts on other topics, but it all led nowhere.
- Patricia Arquette was initially cast in the role eventually played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, but she became pregnant and left the project before filming began.
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