Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
- career
- prostitute
- fight
- bartender
- poet
- alcoholism
- money
- los angeles
- california
- alcohol abuse
- paramedic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- J.C. Quinn — Jim
- Frank Stallone Jr. — Eddie
- Sandy Martin — Janice
- Roberta Bassin — Lilly
- Gloria LeRoy — Grandma Moses
- Joe Unger — Ben
- Harry Cohn — Rick
- Pruitt Taylor Vince — Joe
- Joe Rice — Old Man in Bar
- Julie 'Sunny' Pearson — Hooker in Bar
- Donald L. Norden — Man in Alley
- Directed
- Barbet Schroeder
- Written
- Charles Bukowski
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 392 ratings
- Studio
- Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group, American Zoetrope
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
