Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski, a depressed poet and alcoholic, who meets Wanda, another alcoholic in the seedy bars of Los Angeles. Fortune shines on Henry when a publisher offers to publish...

Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski, a depressed poet and alcoholic, who meets Wanda, another alcoholic in the seedy bars of Los Angeles. Fortune shines on Henry when a publisher offers to publish some of his poems, and he gains a small amount of fame. In the end, Henry and Wanda fall into the same pattern. Written with desperate self-reflexivity by Charles Bukowski.