TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shari Springer Berman
AU  - Robert Pulcini
AU  - Shari Springer Berman
AU  - Robert Pulcini
AU  - Paul Giamatti
AU  - Shari Springer Berman
AU  - Harvey Pekar
TI  - American Splendor
AV  - PN1997 .A447 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - United States
PB  - Good Machine, Dark Horse Entertainment
N1  - Special Features include: Group Audio Commentary with directors and cast (including Harvey Pekar), Animated menus, Harvey Pekar's "My Movie Year" comic book insert, Website downloads, DVD-ROM features
N2  - From case cover:
American Splendor is the story of a little-known working-class everyman, and first-cass curmudgeon, Harvey Pekar. Pekar finds love, family and a creative voice through the underground comic books he creates, but still can't manage to find the quicker supermarket checkout line. Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

Pekar, played by Paul Giamatti, is a frustrated file clerk at a V.A. Hospital, but also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life, entitled American Splendor. Along the bumpy journey, he meets, marries and falls for Joyce, and admiring comic book seller, played by Hope Davis.

Also appearing in the movie are the real Harvey and Joyce, comic book renderings of the couple, and cameos by some of Harvey's closest friends. In this truly original, ultimately heartwarming film, you will find yourself deeply immersed in a world of American Splendor
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