AMERICAN SPLENDOR (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 2003
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: AMERICAN SPLENDOR is the story of a little-known working-class everyman, and first-class curmudgeon, Harvey Pekar. Pekar finds love, family and a creative voice through the underground comic books he creates, but still can't manage to find the quicker supermarket checkout line. Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.; ; Pekar, played by Paul Giamatti, is a frustrated file clerk at a V.A. Hospital, but also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life, entitled AMERICAN SPLENDOR. Along the bumpy journey, he meets, marries and falls for Joyce, an admiring comic book seller, played by Hope Davis.; ; Also appearing in the movie are the real Harvey and Joyce, comic book renderings of the couple and cameos by some of Harvey's closest friends. In this truly original, ultimately heartwarming film, you will find yourself deeply immersed in a world of AMERICAN SPLENDOR.
• Cast: Hope Davis, Chris Ambrose, Joey Krajcar, Josh Hutcherson, Cameron Carter, Daniel Tay, Mary Faktor, Paul Giamatti, Harvey Pekar, Shari Springer Berman, Larry John Meyers, Vivienne Benesch, Barbara Brown, Earl Billings, Danny Hoch, James Urbaniak, Eli Ganias, Sylvia Kauders, Rebecca Borger, Nick Baxter, Allen Branstein, Dick Prochaska, Charles Eduardos, Judah Friedlander, Robert Pulcini, Toby Radloff, Bianca Santos, Maggie Moore, Mike Rad, Amy K. Harmon, Joyce Brabner, Donal Logue, Molly Shannon, Eytan Mirsky, Rob Grader, Terrence Sullivan, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Patrick Lafferty, Jesse Perez, Jeff Peters, Ola Creston, Robert J. Williams, James McCaffrey, Madylin Sweeten, Danielle Batone, Jason Stevens, Todd Cummings, Marcus Wynnycky
• Director: Shari Springer Berman
• Runtime: 1:41
• Company: HBO Films, Fine Line Features, HBO Video, Good Machine
• Media Format: Movie