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Release Date: 2003

Cast: Earl Billings, Danielle Batone, Josh Hutcherson, Molly Shannon, Robert Pulcini, Hope Davis, Joe Krajcar, Judah Friedlander, Cameron Carter, Donal Logue, Paul Giamatti, James McCaffrey ...MORE

Cast: Earl Billings, Danielle Batone, Josh Hutcherson, Molly Shannon, Robert Pulcini, Hope Davis, Joe Krajcar, Judah Friedlander, Cameron Carter, Donal Logue, Paul Giamatti, James McCaffrey, Toby Radloff, James Urbaniak, Madylin Sweeten, Chris Ambrose, Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Daniel Tay ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Biography, Indie, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Marriage Drama, Biopic [feature], Biographical film

American Splendor is a 2003 American biographical comedy-drama film about Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series. The film is also in part an adaptation of the comics, which dramatize Pekar's life. The film was written and directed by documentarians Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who share writing credit with Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner. The film stars Paul Giamatti as Pekar and Hope Davis as Brabner. However, it also features appearances from Pekar and Brabner themselves (along with Toby Radloff), who discuss their lives, the comic books, and... MORE

American Splendor is a 2003 American biographical comedy-drama film about Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series. The film is also in part an adaptation of the comics, which dramatize Pekar's life. The film was written and directed by documentarians Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who share writing credit with Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner. The film stars Paul Giamatti as Pekar and Hope Davis as Brabner. However, it also features appearances from Pekar and Brabner themselves (along with Toby Radloff), who discuss their lives, the comic books, and how it feels to be depicted onscreen by actors. It was filmed entirely on location in Cleveland and Lakewood in Ohio. American Splendor won the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film at the Sundance Film Festival, in addition to the award for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. At the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, the film received the FIPRESCI (critics) award. It was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2003 Academy Awards. The film has a 94% fresh rating of positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Columnist Jaime Wolf wrote a laudatory review of the film in Slate, also LESS