American Splendor - What's this movie about?

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No Lifer
Apr 30, 2001
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AMERICAN SPLENDOR immerses you in the life and worldview of Harvey Pekar: file clerk, working-class intellectual, obsessive compulsive collector, and creator of the seminal autobiographical comic book series "American Splendor." For over two decades, the pages of "American Splendor" have documented the mundane tribulations, random experiences and cultural enthusiasms that make up Pekar's day-to-day existence in his native Cleveland, Ohio. AMERICAN SPLENDOR is the true saga of a working-class everyman who found love, family and a creative voice through comic books. Like its namesake comic, AMERICAN SPLENDOR focuses on the large and small moments in the life of its prickly hero, and offers not one, but several illustrations of Harvey Pekar: the Harvey of the main narrative, portrayed by Paul Giamatti; a 2D animated Harvey; and the real Harvey, past (via archival footage) and present. The result is an inventive film that captures Pekar's voice in all its simple, honest, and cantankerous human scope.


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