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Overall Rank: 1345
Average Rating: 2.9/4
# of Ratings: 129
Theatrical Release Date: 08/15/2003
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Harvey Pekar, Earl Billings, Shari Springer Berman, Maggie Moore, Hope Davis
Plot: A file clerk finds success writing comics about an everyday man that people seem to enjoy reading about because of the real people he creates.
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3.5/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 03/24/2023
Like the career of the real Harvey Pekar, "American Splendor" is a mold breaking, sardonic work of close human observation.
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dukeakasmudge - wrote on 09/17/2011
Im not into the comic books but I definitely liked the movie even though I wasnt expecting to
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3.5/4
Bri - wrote on 01/03/2011
What a charming and uplifting little movie. Paul Giamatti is at his grouchy best, but this movie is full of imperfect love and tenacious humor. Harvey Pekar will be missed, but this is a wonderful introduction to his work and personality.
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An American Masterpiece
filmfan09 - wrote on 01/12/2009
Excellent film, my favorite movie of 2003.
This is such an original and brilliant bio-pic. In 'American Splendor,' Paul Giamatti plays Harvey Pekar, the comic book creator who became famous as a recurring guest on the David Letterman Show. A resident of Cleveland, Pekar was a socially backward man who found he had the talent to translate the pain, loneliness and frustration of his own unhappy life into universal truths, writing material that other artists would then illustrate in comic book form. He began a series entitled `American Splendor,' which was really an ongoing autobiographical narrative, drawing on people and events in his own life as his source of inspiration. The film, a pseudo-documentary of sorts, tells his life story by cutting back and forth between both staged …
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