Gross US & Canada
$6,010,990
Opening weekend US & Canada
$159,705
Gross worldwide
$7,986,084
Gross US & Canada
$6,010,990
Opening weekend US & Canada
$159,705
Gross worldwide
$7,986,084
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By Enid 2022-02-14 08:01:24
01.21.04.American.Splendor.LIMITED.DVDRip.XviD-DMT
2003 Sun Dance Film Festival Best Feature Film One of the
2003 American Film Institute's Top Ten Films
Cannes Film Festival International Film Critics Fabici Award Special tribute to
the hero of the film Ha Verbeck is a comic book writer. He works as an archivist in a hospital. He leads a tedious and monotonous life every day. One day he suddenly hopes to change all of this, hoping that his life will not be so...
By Georgiana 2022-02-14 08:01:24
Ordinary Life is pretty complex stuff
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Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff is a cartoonist Harvey Pekar's famous quote. American Splendor is the name of a comic he wrote, and it is also used as the title of the biographical film of the same name.
But I didn't know it when I watched the movie. Because I confuse this with Gregg...
By Newell 2022-02-14 08:01:24
"American Splendor (American Splendor)": Misfortunes never come singly [Best Film Award of the 19th Sundance Film Festival Jury]
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film won the Best Film Award of the 19th Sundance Film Festival Jury in 2003.
The movie is the autobiography of a cartoonist. The story begins with the protagonist Harvey Pekar's illness in 1975. At this time Harvey Pekar's throat had a problem, and his wife had left him. Harvey Pekar is a person with a bad life, and...
By Shanie 2022-02-14 08:01:24
This may be a moving biopic. But not every person who has an archetype in reality can become what we call a hero.
Harvey Pekar has never heard of him before. The impression of this movie is just that I have seen a dejected man in front of a blue graffiti background that I have seen several times.
Paul Giamatti and his character prototype seem to have almost no similarities. Here I have to agree with the real Harvey Pekar who narrates his life as a voice-over in the movie. At...
By Rosendo 2022-02-14 08:01:24
Image reproduction-everyone is so stupid-the glory of America
It is hard to imagine that a teenage boy would have such a strong resistance to mainstream heroes. When Halloween comes, all children are dressed up as super heroes in the cartoons who save the planet from danger. Only Havery Pekar didn’t wear the red-turned underpants; or put on an unidentified black tablecloth on his back. Put on a pair of black briefs and declare that justice will eventually triumph over evil. When all the children were immersed in the heroism instilled by mainstream...
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By Jolie 2022-04-24 07:01:15
The film is the only example of an "Intersection"-style adaptation, and it's a good one. It is the unique authorship of comics that allows the film version to achieve "Intersection", and while repeatedly crossing the fourth wall, it dissolves the generation gap called "fiction" between the creator and the...
By Cathryn 2022-04-24 07:01:15
The expression of comics has only two functions: biographical films are used to shape the comic family design; a little more visual experience of different materials makes the plain plot more interesting. Compared with the same form of "Ninja Baby", Only at the beginning of the scene where Harvey decided to draw comics, the comics showed his true emotions before the movie, and the others just confirmed how he created comics based on materials from life. After watching it, I wondered why it was...
By Lucie 2022-04-24 07:01:15
Always find the right one, what a...
By Margarita 2022-04-24 07:01:15
Creative biopic The life of a helpless hero is really boring Paul Giamatti is a...
By Douglas 2022-04-24 07:01:15
It also depends on his glass of wine...
Harvey Pekar: So... what are you worried about then?
Joyce Brabner: Well, it's the way... it's the way all the different artists draw you.
Harvey Pekar: What?
Joyce Brabner: You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.
Harvey Pekar: No, those are motion lines. I'm an active guy!
Toby Radloff: How long are you going to be in Delaware? Because I'd really like to see this movie with you.
Harvey Pekar: I don't know. I'll be gone about a week. But I'm getting married, so I'll have to bring her along too. Is it a girl flick?
Toby Radloff: Depends on the girl. Is your new bride a nerd?
Harvey Pekar: I don't know. Kinda. Yeah. She's in to herbal tea.
Real Harvey: [introducing on-screen character] Here's our man. Yeah, all right. Here's me. Well, the guy playin' me anyway. Even though he don't look nothin' like me. But, whatever.