Critic Reviews
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David Ansen, Newsweek
A glorious rebuke to all this summer's recycled, effects-ridden, laboriously "fun" Hollywood disappointments piled along the wayside like so many crashed cars.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
We're constantly kept on our toes regarding issues of representation while Pekar's sour but indefatigible working-class skepticism carries us along.
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Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
It would be a mistake to regard American Splendor as an anthem for the common man. It is the uncommon that is being celebrated here.
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Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
If Harvey Pekar is a brilliant oddity so is the movie that tells his story.
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Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee
Pulcini and Berman have inventively rethought the notion of the biopic, and the results are audacious.
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Cast
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Paul Giamattias Harvey Pekar -
Hope Davisas Joyce Brabner -
Harvey Pekaras Real Harvey
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Shari Springer Bermanas Interviewer -
James Urbaniakas Robert Crumb -
Judah Friedlanderas Toby Radloff
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