Hubert Selby's violent novel of Brooklyn low life in the early 1950s (gang violence, sexual violence, labor violence, domestic violence -- da woiks!), brought to the screen decades too late, and by a foreign director (Uli Edel) to heighten the alienness, and grotesqueness, and squalidness, and luridness, and garishness, and all-around falseness. Musical composer Mark Knopfler tops off the spectacle with an absurdly inappropriate plagiarism of Chopin's E-major Etude. Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Dobson, Burt Young, Jerry Orbach. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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