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Release Date: 2005

Cast: Didier Flamand, Matthew Feeney, Thomas Lyons, Jim Brockhohn, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens, Marisa Tomei, Adrienne Shelly, Karen Young, Matt Dillon

Categories: Movies, Comedy-Drama, Drama Film, Tragicomedy, Indie, Biography, Film Adaptation, Black Comedy, Comedy, Romance Film

Factotum is a 2005 film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Bukowski. The script also makes use of poems published in What Matters Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire and The Days Run Aways Like Horses Over the Hill as well as some of Bukowski's notebook entries published in The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship. For example, Matt Dillon reads the poem "Roll The Dice" (from the book What Matters Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire) in a voiceover at the end of the film. The film is principally a French-Norwegian... MORE

Factotum is a 2005 film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Bukowski. The script also makes use of poems published in What Matters Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire and The Days Run Aways Like Horses Over the Hill as well as some of Bukowski's notebook entries published in The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship. For example, Matt Dillon reads the poem "Roll The Dice" (from the book What Matters Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire) in a voiceover at the end of the film. The film is principally a French-Norwegian co-production, although with an American cast. It was released in Norway in 2005 and distributed in the U.S. by IFC Films in 2006. It was released on DVD in the U.S. on 26 December 2006. Bukowski's book, which is also titled Factotum, was published in 1975. The book centers on the character of Henry Chinaski, who is widely known to be Bukowski’s alter ego. In the film, Chinaski (Matt Dillon) is working toward becoming a writer and follows his own advice that "If you're going to try, go all the way." The film follows Chinaski's various jobs and relationships with women. The only constants in Chinaski's LESS