| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
American splendor is the story of a little-known working-class everyman, Harvey Pekar. Harvey finds love, family and creative voice through the underground comic books, but still can't manage to find the quicker supermarket checkout. Pekar 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 and marries Joyce, 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 |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of SBS 1 broadcast August 24, 2010. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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Based on the comic book series "American splendor" and "Our cancer year" by Harvey Pekar |
| Credits |
Directors: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman ; Producer: Ted Hope |
| Cast |
Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis |
| Notes |
Rated: M |
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Originally produced : Home Box Office, 2003 |
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DVD. Region unspecified |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Feature films
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Drama
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Illustrators -- United States -- Drama
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama
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| Author |
Pulcini, Robert
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Berman, Shari Springer
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Hope, Ted
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Giamatti, Paul
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Davis, Hope, 1967-
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Pekar, Harvey.
American splendor
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Pekar, Harvey.
Our cancer year
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SBS-TV
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