6.8/10
IMDB Rating : 6.8
FD Smart Rating : 6.8
Synopsis : A prostitute falls for one of her customers, an Army officer from the Midwest about to ship out for Korea, in this dark drama set in 1950s Brooklyn.
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Germany
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Stephen Lang , Bernard Zette , Peter Dobson , Maia Danziger , Camille Saviola , Stephen Baldwin , Jerry Orbach , Ricki Lake , Jennifer Jason Leigh , Burt Young , Sam Rockwell , Jason Andrews , Alexis Arquette
English [Original] , German
German
Drama
1989
1h38m
Suitable for age 16 or older.
Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.'s controversial novel. 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.