0 Comments on American Splendor
Trending
Top
New
American Splendor
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff
Comedy, Drama - 2003
American Splendor
Disc
$39.94
Buy
N/A
Rent
$3.99
0 Comments
7.4
94%
90
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
Director:
,
Shari Springer Berman
,
Robert Pulcini
Cast:
,
Paul Giamatti
,
Hope Davis
,
Chris Ambrose
,
Joey Krajcar
,
Josh Hutcherson
,
Cameron Carter
,
Daniel Tay
,
Mary Faktor
,
Harvey Pekar
,
Joyce Brabner

Similar

Same Director

American Splendor
Ghost World
(2001)
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' friendship.
American Splendor
Adaptation.
(2002)
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kau...
American Splendor
The Nanny Diaries
(2007)
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
American Splendor
Girl Most Likely
(2012)
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
American Splendor
Cinema Verite
(2011)
In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. CINEMA VERITE tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking documentary "An America...
American Splendor
The Extra Man
(2010)
THE EXTRA MAN is a sophisticated and moving comedy from filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. THE EXTRA MAN follows Louis Ives (Paul Dano), a lonely dreamer who fancies himself the hero of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. When a deeply embarrassing incident forces him to leave his job at an exclusive Princeton prep school, ...
American Splendor
10,000 Saints
(2015)
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey t...
Go to IMDb

7.4
Go to R. Tomatoes

94%

90

Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
101 min
Release date:
15 Aug 2003
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$2,000,000
Revenue:
$6,003,587
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 31 wins & 50 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Hugely enjoyable and very clever portrait of Harvey Pekar.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
We're constantly kept on our toes regarding issues of representation while Pekar's sour but indefatigible working-class skepticism carries us along.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
17 Apr 2007
fresh:
A glorious rebuke to all this summer's recycled, effects-ridden, laboriously "fun" Hollywood disappointments piled along the wayside like so many crashed cars.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
18 Aug 2008
fresh:
The rare artist biopic that goes beyond the dull march of events and actually illuminates the creative process.
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
14 Jul 2010
fresh:
I can't imagine how the filmmakers went about it, let alone pulled the whole thing off, but their film comes together in unpredictable and remarkably pleasurable ways.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
12 Apr 2013
See more...
Press esc to close