Gowan McGland is what might be, and undoubtedly has been, described as a Brendan Behanesque (i.e., drunk as a skunk, randy as a goat) poet: he has not composed a poem in five years, and ekes out instead a meager existence on the lecture circuit (or as his estranged wife calls it, "the lecher circuit") and by never declining a dinner invitation and pocketing the tip himself. Tom Conti, with an immaculately maintained two-day beard growth, does a good imitation of this imitation bard. Of course, the character, literary in conception and in execution as well, is a hideous stereotype, but a less common stereotype than others on screen; and the least that can be said for the movie is that, while it is willing to have fun with the man, it harbors few illusions about him. Based on a novel by Peter DeVries; written by Julius Epstein; directed by Robert Ellis Miller. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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