American Splendor
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 65 Ratings
- Starring: Harvey Pekar, Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman
- Summary: The true saga of a working-class Everyman who pursues self-expression without self-censorship -- and finds a grateful audience, critical admiration, and that most remarkable of happy endings, a loving family. (Fine Line Features)
- Director: Robert Pulcini
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Comedy
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Positive: 41 out of 42
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Mixed: 1 out of 42
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Negative: 0 out of 42
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100This film is delightful in the way it finds its own way to tell its own story. There was no model to draw on, but Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who wrote and directed it, have made a great film by trusting to Pekar's artistic credo.
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100Filmed and acted to near perfection, it's one of the year's most innovative and exciting pictures.
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80It's an hilarious, touching reminder that, sometimes, ordinary folk have the world's most interesting lives.
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60Pekar's autobiographical chronicle of day-to-day banality is a rich, if dingy, tapestry of ordinary life in all its infinite, homely peculiarity, which filmmakers Sheri Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini bring to uniquely eccentric life.
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Positive: 26 out of 33
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Mixed: 1 out of 33
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Negative: 6 out of 33
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R.Dalvi10Excellent. Liked the comedy as well as the dramedy. There was the nerd thing which I liked as well. Good movie.
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russellkruz10fantastic film.
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