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American Splendor

Year:
Duration:
101 min
Genres:
Biography | Comedy | Drama
IMDB rate:
7.5
Director:
Shari Springer Berman
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 33 wins & 38 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2003-09-12
Filming Locations: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $159,705 (USA) (17 August 2003)
Gross: $6,003,587 (USA) (30 November 2003)
Cast
Actor
Character
Chris Ambrose
Superman
Joey Krajcar
Batman
Josh Hutcherson
Robin
Cameron Carter
Green Lantern
Daniel Tay
Young Harvey
Mary Faktor
Housewife
Paul Giamatti
Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar
Real Harvey
Shari Springer Berman
Interviewer (voice)
Larry John Meyers
Throat Doctor (as Larry John Myers)
Vivienne Benesch
Lana
Barbara Brown
Nurse
Earl Billings
Mr. Boats
Danny Hoch
Marty
James Urbaniak
Robert Crumb
Eli Ganias
Pahls
Sylvia Kauders
Old Jewish Lady
Rebecca Borger
Cashier
Nick Baxter
Mattress Guy #1
Allen Branstein
Mattress Guy #2
Dick Prochaska
WW II Patient
Charles Eduardos
Doctor
Judah Friedlander
Toby Radloff
Robert Pulcini
Bob The Director
Toby Radloff
Real Toby
Bianca Santos
Counter Girl
Maggie Moore
Alice Quinn
Hope Davis
Joyce Brabner
Mike Rad
Rand
Amy K. Harmon
Cheery Waitress
Joyce Brabner
Real Joyce
Donal Logue
Stage Actor Harvey
Molly Shannon
Stage Actor Joyce
Eytan Mirsky
Guitarist
Rob Grader
Stage Manager
Terrence Sullivan
Letterman Regular
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
MTV Director
Patrick Lafferty
Yuppie
Jesse Perez
Miguel
Jeff Peters
Talk Show Host
Ola Creston
PA #1
Robert J. Williams
Cancer Doctor
James McCaffrey
Fred
Madylin Sweeten
Danielle
Danielle Batone
Real Danielle
Jason Stevens
Letterman Regular Voice (voice)
Todd Cummings
Talk Show Host Voice (voice)
Rae Sunshine Lee
Cashier (uncredited)
Marcus Wynnycky
Comic Book Fan (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The jacket that Paul Giamatti wears for Harvey's first Late Night with David Letterman (1982) appearance is the exact same piece of clothing that we see the real Harvey Pekar wearing on the TV.
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Jonathan Demme had tried to adapt a film version of "American Splendor" in the 1980s, but the project never came to fruition as Demme wasn't an established director.
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Ted Hope:  voice on answering machine from Late Show with David Letterman (1993).
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Goofs
When Joyce Brabner is running through her personality disorder diagnoses, before she says her "delusions of grandeur" line, we see the phone and an open Fruit Cup near it. The scene is set in the 1980s, and the plastic fruit cups weren't on store shelves until the late-'90s or early 2000s.
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When Harvey Pekar forgets his keys and cannot get into the apartment, the elderly woman opens the door for him. When he closes the door behind him, it bounces off the frame and doesn't latch shut.
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The exterior front of the comic book store shows a wooden structure with windows that reach about half way up the height of the building and a wooden door with a glass section in it. The interior view shows glass extending from the ceiling to the floor and no wooden door.
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Quotes
Toby Radloff: You might want to try believing in something bigger than yourself. It might cheer you up.
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Toby Radloff: I consider myself a nerd.
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Harvey Pekar: Wow, you're a sick woman.
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Faq
Q
How does it end?
A
Harvey is cancer-free. He and Joyce raise Danielle as their own daughter.In the last scene we see the real Joyce, Danielle, Toby, etc. in the real Harvey's (real?) retirement party at the hospital, and a comic book titled "Our Movie Year".
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