Stephen Lang ( Harry Black )
Jennifer Jason Leigh ( Tralala )
Burt Young ( big Joe )
Stephen Baldwin ( Sal )
Peter Dobson ( Vinnie )
Jerry Orbach ( Boyce )
Jason Andrews ( Tony )
James Lorinz ( Freddy )
Sam Rockwell ( Al )
Maia Danziger ( Mary Black )
Camille Saviola ( Ella )
Ricky Lake ( Donna )
Cameron Johann ( Spook )
John Costelloe ( Tommy )
Christopher Murney ( Paulie )
Frank Acciarto ( Eddie )
Lisa Passero ( Teresa )
Mike Cichetti ( Brickowski )
Nicholas Giangiulio ( Stump )
Alexis Arquette ( Georgette )
Zette ( Regina )
Robi Martin ( Goldie )
Sarah Rose ( Rosie )
Julian Alexon ( Camille )
Robert Weil ( Alex )
Mark Boone Jr. ( Willie )
Sylvie Spector ( submarine Annie )
Colleen Flynn ( Ruthie )
Frank Military ( Steve )
David Warshofsky ( Mike )
Daniel O'Shea ( Bill )
Daniel Beer ( tral's trick )
Rutanya Alda ( Georgette's mother )
Al Shannon II ( Athur )
Bruce Smolanoff ( lost soldier )
James McDonald ( lost soldier )
Andrew Van Dusen ( lost soldier )
James Harper ( cop )
Ray Gill ( downland )
Mike Starr I ( security guard )
Christopher Curry ( Riot police officer )
Michael O'Hare ( Riot police officer )
Bob Martana ( truck driver )
Joseph Carberry ( uptown bartender )
John M. Bennet ( uptown doggie )
Bill Moody I ( uptown doggie )
Frank Vincent ( priest )
Brent Kantz ( Bobby )
Marc Ryan ( Jack )
Rob Kramer ( Fred )
Hubert Selby Jr. ( car driver )
Set in Brooklyn during the 1940s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence.
A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he's homosexual.
Summary written by Mark Logan
Taken from Hubert Selby Jr.'s controversial novel, it's a gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surrounding and selves:
an union strike leader discover he's homosexual; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daugther is illegitimately pregnant.
