Barfly

The last time Mickey Rourke paid for a drink was the first time! He's a barfly-a drunk, endlessly cruising seedy after hours Los Angeles in an alcoholic haze looking to get beaten senseless in boozy brawls. He's been in prison but the bars there aren't the sort he likes! Sharing his disgust of humanity, the bland conformist pressures of life and his bed is the emotionally bruised Faye Dunaway. Now a dilemma has arisen. A Literary editor has recognised his writing talent and his freewheeling, inebriated lifestyle is suddenly under threat. Critically acclaimed, gritty, hard-edged and comic, Barfly is the autobiography of Charles Bukowski, America's greatest living writer and poet. © Cannon Films Inc. and Cannon International A.R.R.