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1. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › american-splendor-2003American Splendor movie review (2003) - Roger Ebert

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   Aug 22, 2003 · American Splendor. One of the closing shots of “American Splendor” shows a retirement party for Harvey Pekar, who is ending his career as a file clerk at a V.A. hospital in Cleveland. This is a real party, and it is a real retirement.

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     This family, the Livingstons, is Jewish, lives in the...

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › American_Splendor_(film)American Splendor (film) - Wikipedia

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   American Splendor is a 2003 American biographical comedy drama film ... The real Harvey retires from the VA hospital, and the staff holds a retirement party where ...

3. dennisschwartzreviews.com › americansplendorAMERICAN SPLENDOR – Dennis Schwartz Reviews

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   Aug 5, 2019 · The film closes with Harvey’s real retirement party as a file clerk after 30 years of service. By this time Harvey has learned how to live better with his depressions, neuroses, his obsessive-compulsive complex, and has managed to get recognized for his unique comic book for adults.

4. www.bbc.co.uk › films › 2003/12/22BBC - Films - American Splendor

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   Dec 22, 2003 · Updated 29 December 2003. Contains strong language. Sweet, funny and off-kilter, American Splendor blurs the boundaries between documentary and drama, creating something striking and original.

5. themetropole.blog › 2020/02/26 › cleveland-circaCleveland circa 2003 in American Splendor – The Metropole

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   Feb 26, 2020 · The release of Pekar’s Our Cancer Year follows, and then documentary footage of the retirement party of the real Pekar after 36 years as a V.A. file clerk. But for a film dedicated to a man who described life as “a war of attrition,” the film seems almost afraid to be political.

6. www.nytimes.com › 2003/08/15 › moviesFILM REVIEW; A Comics Guy, Outside the Box - The New York Times

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   Aug 15, 2003 · A film review in Weekend on Friday about ''American Splendor,'' based on Harvey Pekar's autobiographical comic-book series, misspelled the surname of an artist whose drawings are shown in the...

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   Is 'American Splendor' a real retirement party?

   • One of the closing shots of “American Splendor” shows a retirement party for Harvey Pekar, who is ending his career as a file clerk at a V.A. hospital in Cleveland. This is a real party, and it is a real retirement. Harvey Pekar, the star of comic books, the Letterman show and now this movie, worked all of his life as a file clerk.

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   Who is American Splendor?

   • Sweet, funny and off-kilter, American Splendor blurs the boundaries between documentary and drama, creating something striking and original. Harvey Pekar is our hero, a comic book writer whose subject is himself, with his work portraying the everyday existence of a sour but sincere honest Everyman.

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   Is American Splendor based on a true story?

   • The peculiarity and genius of American Splendor was always that true life and fiction marched hand in hand. There was a real Harvey Pekar, who looked very much like the one in the comic book, and whose own life was being described. Now comes this magnificently audacious movie, in which fact and fiction sometimes coexist in the same frame.

   American Splendor movie review (2003) - Roger Ebert

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   Who starred in 'American Splendor'?

   • "Critics Group Names 'American Splendor' Top Film: The National Society of Film Critics also honors Bill Murray and Charlize Theron as best actors and Clint Eastwood as best director of 2003," Los Angeles Times (January 4, 2004). ^ Brick, Michael (January 4, 2004). "Minus Frills, Film Critics Pick Winners Of Awards". The New York Times.

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   What awards did American Splendor win?

   • American Splendor won the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, in addition to the award for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.

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   Does American Splendor have a source?

   • But “American Splendor” does have a source, and its source is Harvey Pekar himself–his life, and what he has made of it. The guy is the real thing. He found Joyce, who is also the real thing, and Danielle found them, and as I talked with her I could see she was the real thing, too.

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8. agoodmovietowatch.com › american-splendor-2003American Splendor (2003) - A Good Movie To Watch

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   What stands out. Live action-animated hybrids aren't new, but the way they also incorporated the actual writer and included him in the voiceover adds a touch more meta that we haven't seen in other films. An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.