FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Barfly
No freely reusable poster is available for this title.
Scores
- IMDb7.1/10as of 2026-02-22
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer76%as of 2025-05-23
- Rotten Tomatoes average6.7/10as of 2021-10-05
What it is
Barfly is a 1987 American black comedy film directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. The film is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles, and it presents Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski.
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama / Romance / Comedy
- Original language
- English
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