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American Splendor (2003)

Biography | 101 minutes
3,41 437 votes

Genre: Biography / Comedy

Duration: 101 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

Stars: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis and Harvey Pekar

IMDb score: 7,4 (54.412)

Releasedate: 15 August 2003

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American Splendor plot

"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff"

Harvey Pekar is a pessimist with little hope of ever getting beyond his boring hospital job. When he meets Robert Crumb, he gets his big break as a comic writer. We see how Pekar meets his wife Joyce, becomes a regular at David Letterman's, and how he overcomes cancer.

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wendyvortex

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In the review!

Still, this is a great movie. Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar (RIP 2010), who has been publishing his daily life as a comic strip since 1976. Of course it helps if you know his work, but the daily life of a grumbling neurotic American with a silly job, very recognizable (although I'm not American of course). And of course Toby the nerd is awesome too!

Together with Ghost World (and Hate) my favorite comic.

And at least as great as the Ghost World movie.

Masterpiece.

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Insignificance

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Slightly brilliant biopic. Often some stiff films with a fixed pattern. Little of that here. One that alternates film, documentary and comic. Harvey Pekar in the form of himself, the actor who plays him and his drawn version. Everything is possible. Every facial expression that Giamatti conjures up is spot on and the smoothly integrated conversations with the real Pekar provide the man with even more flesh and blood. Not a bon vivant, not a happy boy, a gloomy guy with flaws, but a real one.

A separate scene like the one with the jellybeans and the nerd, which apparently really exists, while Giamatti can hardly contain the laughter in the background, is worth gold. Just like his appearances with Letterman. Even when Pekar is faced with serious setbacks, the film easily stands up. Brave film, fun, moving, sincere and honest. No false notes in this American glory, but a lot of jazz and other black music that also gives it a nice cadence. Harvey is the guy.

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