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Film · 2003 · Comedy drama
American Splendor
Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
2003
★ 4.5 editorial score
The real Harvey Pekar appears in the film alongside the actor playing him, and they discuss it: a file clerk in Cleveland turned his ordinary life into comics, and stayed a file clerk.
“The peculiarity and genius of American Splendor was always that true life and fiction marched hand in hand. There was a real Harvey Pekar, who looked very much like the one in the comic book, and whose own life was being described. Now comes this magnificently audacious movie, in which fact and fiction sometimes coexist in the same frame.”
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2003Depicts 1970s
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