American Splendor

Name: American Splendor
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2003-08-15
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, James Urbaniak, Earl Billings

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff

American Splendor (2003)

Timing: 1:41 (101 min)

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Release date

2003-08-15

Country

United States

Production

Good Machine, HBO Films

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Budget

$2 000 000

Box office

$6 003 587

Website

http://www.newline.com/properties/americansplendor.html

Director

Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Actors

Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, James Urbaniak, Earl Billings, James McCaffrey, Maggie Moore, Vivienne Benesch, Daniel Tay, Harvey Pekar
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Harvey Pekar, Shari Springer Berman

Producer

Ted Hope

Camera operator

Terry Stacey

Composer

Mark Suozzo

Artist

Thérèse DePrez

Audition

Ann Goulder

Editing

Robert Pulcini
Whole Team (10)

Short description

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

What's left behind the scenes

All the documentary footage in the 'clean room' was shot in a single day.
NBC did not allow the filmmakers to use footage from the 1982 David Letterman show in which Harvey Picker became enraged during a conversation with the host. This scene had to be recreated.