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Barfly
The film centers on Henry Chinaski who spends almost time drinking in the bar. One day, he confronts a alcoholic- Wanda and falls in love with her. Then, He becomes famous by dint of his poems but what is the last choice?
7 November 1931, Bucyrus, Ohio, USA
5 July 1960, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
1950
9 March 1918, San Francisco, California, USA
25 May 1949, Lake County, Tennessee, USA
21 December 1943, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
22 August 1930, New York City, New York, USA
1944, Sacramento, California, USA
1 February 1934, New York City, New York, USA
22 February 1952, San Francisco, California, USA
16 September 1952, Schenectady, New York, USA
16 August 1920, Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
30 November 1940, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
19 April 1918, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA
30 July 1950, New York City, New York, USA
August 08, 2002
A terrific little film that features the best performance Mickey Rourke has ever given. It drags you into its world and makes you care about the characters.
January 05, 2004
Captures Bukowski well.
June 05, 2009
Charles Bukowski's semi-autobiographical short story-cum-screenplay is rich fodder for filmmaker Schroeder, who squeezes all the available juice out of it in a sensitively directed film
April 27, 2003
Rourke and Dunaway are dynamite
March 23, 2010
The first four letters say it all.
July 20, 2006
A lowlife seriocomedy.
August 27, 2004
An audacious movie about skid-row existentialism.
January 13, 2012
As I write about Barfly, I do seem to be talking myself into greater admiration for it, or at least into a sense of welcome design beneath its superficial inertia.
March 17, 2012
Mickey Rourke gives a splendid performance as Bukowski's alter ego, the boozy, offbeat and eccentric writer, and he also brings the best out of Faye Dunaway as his unstable companion.
