American splendor
(DVD) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.

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Based on the comic book series "American splendor" by Harvey Pekar and "Our cancer year" by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner.

Special features: group audio commentary with directors and cast; "My movie year" 6 page comic insert that appeared in "Entertainment Weekly"; and DVD ROM features including screen saver.

Director of photography, Terry Stacey ; editor, Robert Pulcini ; music, Mark Suozzo ; costume designer, Michael Wilkinson ; production designer, The?re?se Deprez.

Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, James Urbaniak, Earl Billings, James McCaffrey, Maggie Moore, Vivienne Benesch.

Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.

Rated R; for language.

DVD format; NTSC (Region 1) ; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Sundance Film Festival (2003): Grand Jury Prize ; Cannes Film Festival (2003): Film Festival International Critics Award.