Directed by Barbet Schroeder
In the same city but far removed from Barton Fink, Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway star in the booze-soaked semi-autobiographical story of writer Charles Bukowski’s life among the down-and-out denizens of LA’s dive bars. Rourke and Dunaway give excellent performances as a man who is frequently beaten senseless in back-alley brawls and a woman who’ll follow any man with a fifth of whiskey.
The Cannon Group. Producer: Barbet Schroeder, Fred Roos, Tom Luddy. Screenwriter: Charles Bukowski. Cinematographer: Robby Muller. Editor: Eva Gardos. Cast: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, J. C. Quinn, Frank Stallone.
35mm, color, 100 min.
