Barfly

Destitute alcoholic Henry Chinaski lives in a Los Angeles rundown apartment and works menial jobs when he can find them, fueled by his poetry and short stories submitted to magazines for little money. He frequents The Golden Horn bar, where he drinks, hangs out with other alcoholics, and gets into altercations with the bartender he hates, Eddie, before returning to The Kenmore to meet Wanda, an alcoholic and a kept woman, who becomes entangled in his life of booze and chaos.