from Fine Line Features
Directed by
Shari Berman
Bob Pulcini
Starring
Paul Giamatti (Harvey Pekar)
Hope Davis
Harvey Pekar
Written by
Shari Berman
Bob Pulcini
Rated: 
(for language) |
"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."
Meet Harvey Pekar, bona fide American original.
Cleveland native, V.A. hospital file clerk, and hilariously grumpy observer of life's strange and unpredictable pageant. A comic book writer who writes about his everyday life as an omnivorous reader, jazz lover, obsessive-compulsive collector, and lousy housekeeper. A prickly poet of the mundane who knows that all the strategizing in the world can't save a guy from choosing the wrong supermarket checkout line. Before camcorders, before Webcams, before nonstop reality TV, there was Harvey Pekar and his homegrown autobiographical comic book series "American Splendor." Since 1976, the pages of "American Splendor" have found Harvey puzzling, fuming, and marveling over the minutiae of his day-to-day existence. No experience is too ordinary, no thought too incorrect for him to gnaw over in his funny, candid and utterly humane stories. Bringing his own brand of bravery to comic books, Harvey Pekar addresses what so many of us think and feel, but only dream of saying -- and he never, ever holds back.
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The New American Splendor Anthology
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