Lunatics A Love Story (1991)

In the seedy part of Los Angeles a man who writes poetry has spent six months without leaving his apartment because of his paranoid delusions involving sadistic doctors rappers and spiders A woman who seems to jinx things by wanting to help is dumped by her boyfriend and finds herself penniless on the streets and soon runs afoul of a local gang Due to a telephone glitch the man calls her at a phone booth trying to dial a talk line and invites her to his place There they must help each other to overcome their respective problems