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Genres:
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Biography /
Comedy /
Drama
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Actors:
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Danny Hoch,
Daniel Tay,
Earl Billings,
Vivienne Benesch,
Chris Ambrose,
Joey Krajcar,
Cameron Carter,
Mary Faktor,
Harvey Pekar,
Shari Springer Berman,
Barbara Brown,
Josh Hutcherson,
Paul Giamatti,
Larry John Meyers,
James Urbaniak
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)102
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Plot Summary:
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Harvey Pekar, the hilariously maltreated Cleveland comic book artist, is the put through of AMERICAN SPLENDOR, titled after Pekar's autobiographical series. Played by actor Paul Giamatti, Pekar also appears as himself, giving the flick a documentary feeling with numberless behind-the-scenes on-set shots. Directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini maintain this balance between the actors and the true-existence characters--Pekar's trouble Joyce and workmate Toby also appear on propound as themselves--while crafting a mysterious, finical, heartwarming tittle-tattle that encapsulates Pekar's life, assignment, and uniquely peculiar perspectives.
... Peckar is a heavy-hearted file clerk with no hope of till the cows come home rising above his boring job, slobbish apartment, and unpleasant aspect. Wonderfully set in his ways, Pekar's constant self-deprication is distinctly a front for his plenteous interests in music and tastefulness. When his friend Robert Scintilla (James Urbaniak) gets his great break as a jocose book artist, Pekar decides to try his swiftly at the dexterity. Allowing he can't decorate, his stories are rectitude, and Particle agrees to serve draw the pictures. Soon a sprinkling artists are illustrating Pekar's American Splendor series, and the waggish work's readership grows. The cloud continues including the events of Pekar's soul--meet helpmate Joyce Brabner, appearing on David Letterman, struggling with cancer, and adopting a daughter--always showing Pekar's no-frills method to life. A artistic and punchy fog, AMERICAN SPLENDOR invites viewers into the uncanny mankind of Pekar and his comic-book antihero persona.
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Pekar Pie!!!
Wow!!!
This is a fantastic film, in my opinion, although its not going to be everybodies cup of char. I thought it was interesting how it manages to blur the different realities of real life, film and comic/animation. There is some great characters in there as well as some quite poignant and touching moments.
This is film is especailly interesting for people who love underground comix.
peace. gonz
Not to be missed
This is an absolute corker. You'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll laugh until you cry. The film contains splendid performances from its main characters who had the enormous task of actually appearing in the film with the real people they are playing. An astounding, and very clever, ploy that works sublimely. It is the story of the rise of the American Splendor comic books that document the life of its creator. This film brings those comics to life. And any film that uses the line 'Look before we get started with any of this you'd might as well know right off the bat I had a vasectomy' when the 'hero' meets his heroine deserves to be seen. A classic!
American Splendor
Victor of the Sumptuous Jury Value at Sundance in 2003, American Splendor is an excellent companion piece to Terry Zwigoff's superb documentary Molecule or his adaptation of Daniel Clowes' Ghost World. Written and directed at near husband-and-chain documentary filmmaking tandem join up Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, it feels a splicing of Zwigoff's two films. Part documentary, part biopic, it brings to lifeblood Harvey Pekar's underground autobiographical comic book (start with published in 1976) in an extremely refreshing, satisfactory and unusual way. 'American Splendor' the comic was an acerbic treaty concerning obsession, the universe and entire lot as seen through Pekar's eyes, consisting of a series of vignettes based thither his own mundane...
American Splendor
The mundane life of a working-class everyman is celebrated in all its minor party in this poetical biopic of American fifth-columnists comic-book litt
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