Tales of Ordinary Madness

Tales of Ordinary Madness

1981101 min6.0 / 10

A bleak, surreal descent into self-destruction and depravity that uses a poet's alcoholic spiral to explore the darker impulses of human desire and meaning.

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

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