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American splendour (American splendor) - Paul Giamatti, Harvey Pekar, Hope Davis, Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Threat advisory: High - High risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
American splendour immerses you in the life and world-view of Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti): file clerk, working-class intellectual, obsessive compulsive collector and creator of the seminal autobiographical comic book series American splendour.
For over two decades, the pages of American splendour 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 splendour 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 splendour 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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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film drama comic mundane ordinary Cleveland biography Harvey Pekar
Persons of interest
- Paul Giamatti .... Harvey Pekar
- Harvey Pekar .... Real Harvey
- Shari Springer Berman .... Interviewer
- Earl Billings .... Mr Boats
- James Urbaniak .... Robert Crumb
- Judah Friedlander .... Toby Radloff
- Robert Pulcini .... Bob The Director
- Toby Radloff .... Real Toby
- Hope Davis .... Joyce Brabner
- Joyce Brabner .... Real Joyce
- Donal Logue .... Stage Actor Harvey
- Molly Shannon .... Stage Actor Joyce
- James McCaffrey .... Fred
- Madylin Sweeten .... Danielle
- Danielle Batone .... Real Danielle
- Harvey Pekar .... Comic book writer: American splendor
- Joyce Brabner .... Comic book writer: Our cancer year
- Shari Springer Berman .... Screenwriter
- Robert Pulcini .... Screenwriter
- Shari Springer Berman .... Director
- Robert Pulcini .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- American splendour (American splendor) sites
- Awards and film festivals:
- Cannes Film Festival 2003: FIPRESCI Award Un Certain Regard (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini - for their original approach to fiction and reality, combining two media, that of cinema and graphic novels, in an innovative fashion)
- Sundance Film Festival 2003: Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)
- Studios and distributors:
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
Life meets comic meets film. You can view and read and watch at the same time: cool!
Don't see American splendor without having taken your Efexor XR. How anyone lives long enough in this life to actually retire is beyond me.
Security censorship classification
M (Low level coarse language)
Surveillance time
101 minutes (1:41 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 18 September 2003
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