American Splendor

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Call Number: DVD Comedy American
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.
Based on the comic book series "American splendor" by Harvey Pekar and "Our cancer year" by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner.
Special features: audio commentary with directors and cast featurette: Sundance Channel's "Anatomy of a scene"; music only track: "American splendor song"; special "My movie year" 6 page comic insert that appeared in "Entertainment Weekly"; DVD ROM features including screen saver; Easter eggs; original theatrical trailer.
Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, James Urbaniak, Earl Billings, James McCaffrey, Maggie Moore, Vivienne Benesch.
Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is 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. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.
Contents: American splendor. -- Our cancer year.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Thank God for the Great Paul Giamatti, and intelligent, interesting movies like this one. An endangered species... submitted by Tassos on April 20, 2021, 5:46pm The vast majority of y'all would prefer some moronic Star wars-Star Trek- Hallmark- Fast and Furiously Stupid, or other soap opera, would you? NOT me.

Giammatti is great, but this particular movie is of very little interest to me.