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The movie tells some stories that happens in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood: 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.
18 November 1914, New York City, New York, USA
1 August 1950, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
12 February 1972
23 July 1928, Brooklyn, New York, USA
21 March 1958, New York City, New York, USA
29 July 1950, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
30 April 1940, New York City, New York, USA
19 July 1964, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
13 September 1951, Columbus, Ohio, USA
December 6, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA
23 May 1962, New Jersey, USA
17 March 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4 August 1939, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
8 October 1948, Bell, California, USA
8 April 1946
11 July 1952, New York City, New York, USA
November 25, 2010
German director Eli Edel has fashioned a grim yet coherent and extremely well acted tale out of Hubert Selby's 1964 collection of short stories about misfits, criminals and outsiders in Brooklyn's Red Hook, circa 1952.March 08, 2004
So bleak a vision as to be obsessive and ultimately shallow.December 29, 2011
Cinematic style and Jennifer Jason Leigh make this worth watching.February 07, 2003
The pockmarked buildings have a peeling grayness, as if some forgotten battle had been waged there and dulled everything in its wake.September 07, 2011
For the most part, Edel captures the harrowing grim tone of the book and the compassion the author had for his unsympathetic flawed characters.