Reuben, Reuben (1983)

A washed-up poet, living on readings to bored housewives who later jump into bed with him, finds himself completely smitten with a college student at least 20 years his junior (Kelly McGillis).

The story starts out kind of promisingly: his disdain for himself and almost everyone he meets coupled with his verbal acuity was interesting for a while...but not long enough. It actually got rather uncomfortable in the last half. It was harder to watch him after falling head over heels (and hard to believe  that the empty McGillis could inspire anything beyond an erection) as at least before he hadn't been making any attempts at likability.

D+