Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige
The script for this movie was written by outrageous poet-author-alcoholic Charles Bukowski. But director Barbet Schroeder makes it into an oddly amusing story of a pugnacious drunk writer (Mickey Rour...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 3, 2002
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August 17, 2007A rotten and dismal film. I did like that it ended, exactly how it started.
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March 10, 2007Disappointing, to say the least. I had never even heard of this movie, until it was covered in the documentary Bukowski: Born Into This - you see this script was apparently written by American literary legend, Charles Bukowski, in the later stages of his life (he has a brief came...( read more)
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June 20, 2006Something about Bukowski's gift to skip coherence and go straight for the heart makes him a strangely appealing source of humanism - the last place in the world you would think to locate any sense of "reason" or "triumph".
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January 12, 2009This is how American cinema should be...openly dense and fearlessly howling to all contenders,bouts from every corner of this world.It's a terrible newsreel,Bukowski on the screenplay of a Schroeder film,pessimistic,as far as the jackals can move...Rourke in an electrifying perfo...( read more)
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November 21, 2009A brilliant film with what I believe to be Mickey Roarke's finest piece of work as an actor. The film was written by poet-author Charles Bukowski, and Roarke's character is based on Bukowski himself.
Henry(Roarke) spends most of his time at the bar, getting into the occasional f...( read more) -
November 6, 2009A questo punto penso che il mio amore/ammirazione per Mickey Rourke sia palese, quindi nessuno si stupirā per quello che sto per dire, č stato semplicemente perfetto per una parte del genere, poche storie.
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July 28, 2009GREAT, GREAT, GREAT movie. It's funny, it's sad, it's touching, it's a love story, it's a tortured poet film - altogether a rather fascinating piece of semi-autobiographical work by Charles Bukowski. Barbet Schroeder directs it perfectly and the supporting players are outstanding...( read more)
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May 23, 2009Mickey & Faye are brilliant. One of my favorites!!! Mickey impersonates Bukowski brilliantly!
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