Barfly (film)

Barfly is a 1987 American film which is a semiautobiography of poetauthor Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles. The screenplay by Bukowski was commissioned by the French film director Barbet Schroeder it was published, with illustrations by the author, in 1984 when film production was still pending. Barfly stars Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, with direction by Schroeder, and was presented by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie also features a silent cameo appearance by Bukowski himself.

Henry Chinaski Mickey Rourke is a destitute alcoholic who lives in a rundown apartment and works menial jobs when he can find them. An intelligent man and keenly aware of his circumstance, he finds solace in expressing his feelings and perceptions of the world through writing poetry and short stories.At night, he frequents a local establishment where he drinks, hangs out with other down and out alcoholics, and gets into altercations with patrons along with a tough guy bartender he hates, named Eddie Frank Stallone. One night, Henry comes into the bar very drunk he begins to drink uncontrollably out of other customers glasses and Eddie promptly throws him out into the street. The next day Henry wakes up determined to focus on beating Eddie. ........

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