Reuben, Reuben (1983)

Directors

Robert Ellis Miller

Cast

Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Cynthia Harris, Roberts Blossom, E. Katherine Kerr, Joel Fabiani

The story

Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is a creatively blocked Scottish poet who ekes out a day-to-day existence by exploiting the generosity of strangers in an affluent Connecticut suburb, where he recites his verse to various arts groups and women's clubs. Gowan is something of a leech, cadging expensive dinners from well-off patrons (usually stealing the tips afterward) while seducing their bored wives and affecting a superior attitude toward the smug bourgeois types he exploits. Although a talented poet, he is a chronic drunk, indifferent to the wounds he can casually inflict with his wit.

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