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Release Date
Oct 16, 1987 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 3, 2002
Running Time
1 hour, 40 minutes
Country USA
Studio Cannon Group, Francis Ford Coppola Productions, Golan-Globus Productions
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Other Titles
• Szenen eines wüsten Lebens (1988)
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Love Triangle, Black Comedy, Biography, Drugs, Mental Illness
Tagline: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Plot: Based on a semiautobiographical short story by poet and screenwriter Charles Bukowksi and directed by Barbet Schroeder, BARFLY offers insight into the world of the alcoholic, where all that matters is the next drink. Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke) is a talented writer of prolific prose; unfortunately, he’s also a skid-row alcoholic with a violent temper. He picks fights nightly with Eddie (Frank Stallone), the bartender at the local watering hole the Golden Horn and lives in a seedy tenement, stealing food and trying to scrape together enough money for booze. Fellow alcoholic Willa Wilcox (Faye Dunaway) catches Henry’s eye at the bar one afternoon, and although she has a reputation for being unstable, the two embark on a relationship with each other and the bottle. Their liaison is full of drama, humor, and irrational behavior; it is put to the test when Henry meets Tully (Alice Krige), a rich, privileged literary editor who wants to publish his stories and save him from himself. The film features exceptional performances from Rourke and Dunaway as they portray the highs and lows that are part and parcel of alcoholism--as well as love.
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| Cast |
Mickey Rourke
Man on Fire, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Pledge |
 | Faye Dunaway
Chinatown, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc |
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 | Alice Krige
Star Trek: First Contact, Silent Hill, Reign of Fire | J.C. Quinn
The Abyss, Days of Thunder, Primary Colors | |
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| Music By |
Jack Baran
Single White Female, Kiss of Death, Destiny Turns on the Radio |
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