Factotum is a film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel by Charles Bukowski. The film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. Distribution rights for the film were bought by IFC Films. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on August 18, 2006.

The movie is based on the acclaimed second novel by Charles Bukowski, Factotum, which was published in 1975. The character of Henry Chinaski is widely known to be Bukowski’s alter ego.

Henry Chinaski (Matt Dillon) considers himself a writer, and on occasion writes. Mostly he quests for the booze and women that sidetrack and seduce, rather than inspire greatness. When he falls for Jan (Lili Taylor), the soulful connection fails to save either from their self-destructive ways, and the relationship totters between earnest understanding and reflective loathing. With exceptional performances that capture the intoxicated journey through life and art, Factotum is the story of a man living on the edge; a writer who risks everything, tries anything, and finds poetry in life’s pleasure and pain.