Description: "Universally heralded as the ground-breaking 20th century novel, James Joyce's ULYSSES shattered literary conventions and public mores – which saw the book banned in several countries, including the U.S. – finally achieving its current status as a modern masterpiece. Filmmaker Joseph Strick successfully translates Joyce's unique vision to the screen in this critically acclaimed film with compelling performances. Strick captures the narrative spirit of Joyce's stream-of-consciousness prose using sound and image montages, flashback, dream sequences and inner monologues. The story follows the meanderings of Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising salesman and Joyce's reflection of Homer's wandering epic hero. Bloom's journey – sometimes harrowing, sometimes ludicrous, but never epic – unfolds over twenty-four hours on the coarse streets of Dublin where he joins the sordid revels of a fellow wanderer, the young poet Stephen Dedalus. Through his trials, Bloom must cope with his own impotence, his lusty wife and her spirited infidelities and a healthy does of demons and phantasms plaguing the mind of modern man."