Factotum
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A hard-drinking drifter bounces between dead-end jobs across Los Angeles, always quitting before work can interfere with his true calling: writing.
Why watch: Dillon plays Bukowski's alter ego Chinaski. Norwegian director Hamer sets it in a timeless nowhere.
Cast
Matt Dillon as Henry Chinaski
Lili Taylor as Jan
Marisa Tomei as Laura
Fisher Stevens as Manny
Didier Flamand as Pierre
Adrienne Shelly as Jerry
Karen Young as Grace
Thomas Lyons as Tony Endicott
Dean Brewington as Old Black Man
James Cada as Bald Man
James Michael Detmar as Smithson
Kurt Schweickhardt as Ice Plant Supervisor
Dee Noah as Hank's Mother
James Noah as Hank's Father
Michael Egan as Taxi Office Clerk
Crew
Bent Hamer — Director
Charles Bukowski — Novel
Jim Stark — Writer
Bent Hamer — Writer
Jim Stark — Producer
Bent Hamer — Producer
Christine K. Walker — Executive Producer
John Christian Rosenlund — Director of Photography
Pål Gengenbach — Editor
Eve Cauley — Production Design
Tere Duncan — Costume Design
Kristin Asbjørnsen — Original Music Composer
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