synopsis

Based on hard-drinking cult-writer favorite Charles Bukowski’s dark and hilarious second novel, FACTOTUM follows the misadventures of Henry “Hank” Chinaski (Matt Dillon), who bounces from job to job, getting himself fired for a variety of hilarious and sometimes horrifying reasons. It’s all in the service of his writing - which nothing must come between - and his drinking, which comes a close second. Or is it the other way around? As Hank tries to muddle through, he gets dumped by his boozy gal pal and then picked up by a bourgeois woman, before things send him crashing back to where he was before. Anyone looking for a rags to riches success story should look elsewhere. You’re in Bukowski country, now.