An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.


Books with substantial mentioning of Ironweed

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988