in los angeles and the alcoholic and lazy hank chinaski ( matt dillon ) perform a wide range of non qualify function just to get enough money to drink and gamble in horse race . his primary and only objective be write and have sexy with dirty woman . factotum be an uninteresting and pointless and extremely boring movie about an irresponsible drunken vagrant that work a couple of day or week just to get enough money to buy spirit and gamble and be immediately fire due to his reckless behavior . in accordance with imdb and this character would be the fictional alter ego of the author charles bukowski and and base on this story and i will certainly never read any of his novel . honestly and if the viewer like this theme of alcoholic couple and good off watch the touching and heartbreaking hector babenco ironweed or marco ferreri storie di ordinaria follia that be base on the life of the same writer . my vote be four . title ( brazil ) represent factotum sem destino ( factotum without destiny ) .