The late Charles Bukowski's 1975 semiautobiographical novel comes to the screen with a few major adjustments — including an update from World War II-era America to contemporary L.A. and the casting of eternally handsome Matt Dillon as Bukowski's pockmarked, potato-faced alter ego, Hank Chinaski. Most of the drinking, smoking and sex, however, are left intact, so if you dig Bukowski, pull up a stool. Chinaski (Dillon) is the factotum of the title: a hard-drinking aspiring writer who bounces from one odd job to another, where he lasts only as long as it takes for a man to get fired for drinking on the job, coming in hung over or not coming in at all. Hank's stint at an...
Released:
2006
Rated:
n/a
Length:
94 mins