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Genre : Biography, Comedy, Drama
Cast : : , Chris Ambrose as Superman , Joey Krajcar as Batman , Josh Hutcherson as Robin , Cameron Carter as Green Lantern , Daniel Tay as Young Harvey , Mary Faktor as Housewife , Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar , Harvey Pekar as Real Harvey , Shari Springer Berman as Interviewer (voice) , Larry John Meyers as Throat Doctor (as Larry John Myers) , Vivienne Benesch as Lana , Barbara Brown as Nurse , Earl Billings as Mr. Boats , Danny Hoch as Marty , James Urbaniak as Robert Crumb
Plot : An important blend of fiction along with certainty illuminates the existence of humorist essay hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
Run Time : 101 min
Country : USA
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Language : English
Filming Locations : Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Company : Good Machine
Trivia : Cameo: [Ted Hope]voice on replying tool bask in "Late Show also David Letterman" (1993).
Goofs : Anachronisms: The opportunity of the film is collection inside 1975. During the opportunity credits, there is a shot that has CSX freight motor vehicles inside the background. The CSX enterprises was organized inside 1980, five existence later.
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Plot Summary : Harvey Pekar is line shop attendant at the local VA hospital. His interactions along furthermore his co-workers give different assistance enjoys the monotony, with their talk carries along furthermore it the entirety enjoys music to the repudiate of American tradition to spanking new flavors of jellybeans with living itself. At home, Harvey fills his existence along furthermore reading, authoring with being attentive to jazz. His shelter is choked with thousands of books with LPs, with he often scours Cleveland’s thrift stores with garage sales since more, savoring the exceptional contentment of a 25-cent find. It is at one in every of these worthless sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artiste with music enthusiast. When, existence later, Crumb finds international sensation since his underground comics, the suggestion that slapstick comedian books may troth a true talent fashion since matured inspires Harvey to inscribe his own listing of slapstick comedian book. An admirer of naturalist writers equivalent to Theodore Dreiser, Harvey types his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental chronicle of his working-class life, a warts-and-all one another portrait. First published inside 1976, the slapstick comedian earns Harvey cult reputation all over the 1980s with sooner or later leads him to the ironic Joyce Barber, a wife inside a Delaware slapstick comedian work supermarket who absolute ups someone Harvey’s specific individual buddy since they understanding the unusual byproducts of Harvey’s cult big name stature.
