American Splendor
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An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
FILMS - Film Reviews.Until, that is, he decides to record his everyday existence in the comic book American Splendor, and finds an audience which identifies with his problems and passions. "A unique, unusual character". If you do, too…
Film still for American Splendor.Review. American Splendor opens with a pre-credits sequence that installs its hero at the end of a line-up of costumed trick-or-treaters. It is Halloween, 1950, and the infant Harvey Pekar is huddled on a…
One of the closing shots of “American Splendor” shows a retirement party for Harvey Pekar, who is ending his career as a file clerk at a V.A. hospital in Cleveland. This is a real party, and it is a real retirement. Harvey Pekar, the star…
