The Man with the Beautiful Eyes

Directed by Jonathan Hodgson · Starring Peter Blegvad, Louis Schendler · 2000

A gang of kids playing in an overgrown garden meet the drunk, free-spirited man who lives there, a romantic hero in their eyes compared with their uptight parents.

A Bukowski poem brought to life in vivid, scratchy illustration by Jonathan Hodgson and Jonny Hannah.

A gang of kids find a strange house with an overgrown garden where they play. Only once do they meet the man who lives there, a dead-beat alcoholic with a free and easy spirit who welcomes them. The children see him as a

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