American Splendor 2003 123movies

Watch: American Splendor 2003 123movies, Full Movie Online – Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature..
Plot: An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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Ratings:

	7.4/10 Votes: 50,333
	94% | RottenTomatoes
	90/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 367 Popularity: 11.314 | TMDB

Reviews:

Fascinating Wackos
I guess I am sucker for biographies of weird people. This certainly qualifies for that.

What makes this film different from others is the combination of fictional and real people playing the two main characters: Harvey and Joyce Pekar. For most of the film, Paul Giamatti portrays Pekar – the main focus of the film, and Hope Davis plays his wife, Joyce. However, interspersed in the film are comments from the real Harvey and Joyce. Strange!!!

The only thing stranger that the film structure is the story of these actual people. You wouldn’t think that two dull introverts like this could be made to look so interesting, but they are. What a testimony to the job the filmmakers did here….and the actors. Giamatti was amazing.

After seeing this movie, I was inspired to go out and obtain several of Harvey Pekar’s comic books. Whew! I should have stuck with just the movie. The comics stink!! Don’t waste your money.

Fascinating Wackos
I guess I am sucker for biographies of weird people. This certainly qualifies for that.

What makes this film different from others is the combination of fictional and real people playing the two main characters: Harvey and Joyce Pekar. For most of the film, Paul Giamatti portrays Pekar – the main focus of the film, and Hope Davis plays his wife, Joyce. However, interspersed in the film are comments from the real Harvey and Joyce. Strange!!!

The only thing stranger that the film structure is the story of these actual people. You wouldn’t think that two dull introverts like this could be made to look so interesting, but they are. What a testimony to the job the filmmakers did here….and the actors. Giamatti was amazing.

After seeing this movie, I was inspired to go out and obtain several of Harvey Pekar’s comic books. Whew! I should have stuck with just the movie. The comics stink!! Don’t waste your money.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 2000000
Revenue 6003587
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Writer Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Shari Springer Berman
Actors Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 31 wins & 50 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium, Panavision Primo Lenses, Sony CineAlta HDW-F900
Laboratory DeLuxe, Toronto, Canada
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 500T 5298), Video (HDTV)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format) (some scenes), HDCAM (1080p/24) (source format) (interview segments), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm