This is the first comprehensive documentary of Charles "Hank" Bukowski (1920-1994).

The film traces his extraordinary life, from an abusive childhood through decades of poverty and alcoholism; numerous menial jobs and turbulent relationships; through 14 years as a postal employee; and his eventual international celebrity as a poet, novelist and underground cult icon. Bukowski was one of those rare writers whose work created a myth of epic proportions around its creator.

Director John Dullaghan spent seven years researching and shooting Bukowski: Born Into This, conducting dozens of interviews with relatives, neighbours, teenage pals, fellow post office workers, girlfriends and other poets as well as better-known friends like Bono, Sean Penn.

This beautifully crafted documentary peels off the hardened mask of the mythic Bukowski to reveal the insecure, loving and extremely human man and the artist underneath.

"Born Into This" is an inspiring documentary that will have you running straight out of the theatre and into the bookstore. 4.5 stars Jamie Leonarder, The Movie Show.

Estimated despatch 14-20 days after ordering.