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American Splendor (2003)

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R | 1 hr 40 mins | Drama, Biopic, Adaptation | Released: 8/15/2003 |Box Office Total: $6.0M

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Synopsis:

Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his "American Splendor" a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.

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Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
8/15/2003

Director	Credit
Shari Springer-Berman	Director
Robert Pulcini	Director
Cast	Credit
Paul Giamatti	Harvey Pekar
Hope Davis	Joyce Brabner
Judah Friedlander	Toby Radloff
Harvey Pekar	Real Harvey
James Urbaniak	Robert Crumb
Shari Springer Berman	Interviewer
Earl Billings	Mr Boats
Robert Pulcini	Bob the Director
Toby Radloff	Real Toby
Joyce Brabner	Real Joyce
Donal Logue	Stage Actor Harvey
Molly Shannon	Stage Actor Joyce
James McCaffrey	Fred
Madylin Sweeten	Danielle
Danielle Batone	Real Danielle
Chris Ambrose	Superman
Joe Krajcar	Batman
Josh Hutcherson	Robin
Cameron Carter	Green Lantern
Daniel Tay	Young Harvey
Mary Faktor	Housewife
Larry John Myers	Throat Doctor
Vivienne Benesch	Lana
Barbara Brown	Nurse
Danny Hoch	Marty
Eli Ganias	Pahls
Rebecca Borger	Cashier
Nick Baxter	Mattress Guy #1
Allen Branstein	Mattress Guy #2
Bianca Santos	Counter Girl
Maggie Moore	Alice Quinn
Mike Rad	Rand
Amy Harmon	Cheery Waitress
Rob Grader	Stage Manager
Terrence Sullivan	Letterman Regular
Ebon Moss-Bachrach	MTV Director
Patrick Lafferty	Yuppie
Jesse Perez	Miguel
Jeff Peters	Talk Show Host
Ola Creston	PA #1
Robert J Williams	Cancer Doctor
Jason Stevens	Letterman Regular Voice
Todd Cummings	Talk Show Host Voice
Production Credits	Credit
Julia King	Associate Producer
Ted Hope	Producer
Production Companies	Credit
This Is That Production	Production Company
Good Machine Releasing	Production Company
HBO Independent Productions	Production Company
Distribution Companies	Credit
NonStop Sales	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
HBO Kids Video	Domestic Video Distributor
HBO Pictures	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Fine Line Features	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Optimum Releasing	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Rialto Distribution	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Locations
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Writer	Credit
Robert Pulcini	Screenplay
Harvey Pekar	Source Material
Shari Springer-Berman	Screenplay
Accounting	Credit
Jennifer Freed	Post-Production Accountant
Brian Cantaldi	Assistant Accountant - Bookkeeper
Art Department	Credit
Robert Desue	Set Decorator
Donald J Liegl	Swing Gang
Beth O'Brien	Art Department - Art Department Intern
Kenneth Kellers	Leadman
Deborah Marsh	Art Department Coordinator
Diana Stoughton	Dresser
Therese DePrez	Production Designer
Matt Hausmann	Art Department - Art Department Intern
David W Mooney	Swing Gang
Erika Rice	Swing Gang
Todd Heckeler	Art Department
Dustin Lucien	Art Department - Art Department Intern
John A Champion	Swing Gang
Shaina Malkin	Art Department - Art Department Intern
Jack Gardner	Swing Gang
James E Todd	Swing Gang
Mike O'Neill	Art Department - Art Department Intern
Casting	Credit
Marcy Ronen	Extras Casting
Ann Goulder	Casting
Elizabeth Baird	Casting Assistant - Principals Casting Assistant
Kendall Embrescia	Casting Assistant
Craft Services	Credit
Virginia M Herdman	Craft Service
Michael T. Santeramo	Catering - Chef
Sara Lieberth	Craft Service
Robert H Langhorst	Catering - Assistant Chef
Paula D Collins	Craft Service - Craft Service Assistant
William Ball	Craft Service - Additional Craft Assistant
Film Camera	Credit
Steven Drellich	Camera Operator
John Clifford	Photography - Still Photographer
Alfredo Frasson	Color Timer
Terry Stacey	Director of Photography
Oliver Cary	Assistant Camera
Ian Axilrod	Loader
Pat Meehan	Video Assist/Playback - 24 Frame Playback
Alex Esber	Assistant Camera
Alex Esber	Camera Operator - "B" Camera Operator
Ian Carmody	Photography - Credit Sequence Stills
Kiely Cronin	Assistant Camera
Kiely Cronin	Camera Operator - "B" Camera Operator
Ian Carmody	Assistant Camera - Camera Intern
Alex Mangen	Assistant Camera - Camera Intern
Film Sales Financing	Credit
HBO Pictures	Film Financier
Legal	Credit
Alison Cohen	Legal Counsel
Management	Credit
Elisabeth Giglio	Manager
Janelle Fletcher	Manager - Avid Facility Manager
Music	Credit
Eytan Mirsky	Music Performer - Guitarist
Ted Spencer	Score Mixing - Music Mixing
Ted Spencer	Score Recording - Music Recording
Mark Suozzo	Composer
Mark Suozzo	Music Conductor
Mark Suozzo	Orchestrations
Mark Suozzo	Music Producer
Peter Dolger	Song
Joe Maneri	Song Performer
Dave Douglas	Trumpet
Linda Cohen	Music Supervisor
Sanford Allen	Soloist - Violin Solos
Butch Jones	Score Recording - Additional Recording
Captain	Song
Captain	Song Performer
Josh Rosenblum	Music Conductor - Additional Conducting
Bob Malach	Music Performer - Tenor Sax
Jimmy McHugh	Song
Dale Stuckenbruck	Music Performer - Musical Saw
Lester Young	Song Performer
Sanford Allen	Music Conductor - Concertmaster
Oscar Peterson Trio	Song Performer
Dorothy Fields	Song
Derek Smith	Music Performer - Piano
Derek Smith	Music Performer - Organ
Jay McShann	Song Performer
Paul Quinichette	Song
Derek Smith	Music Performer - Celeste
Everett Robbins	Song
Marvin Gaye	Song Performer
Porter Grainger	Song
The Andrews Sisters	Song Performer
John Beal	Music Performer - Bass
The Clash	Song Performer
Ronnie Zito	Music Performer - Drums
Robert Rogers	Song
Smokey Robinson	Song
R Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders	Song Performer
Marvin Tarplin	Song
Eytan Mirsky	Song Performer
Warren Moore	Song
Dizzy Gillespie	Song Performer
Mark Cherrie	Song Performer
Neville Plesson	Song
Noel Pagan	Song Performer
Albert Von Tilzer	Song
Joe Strummer	Song
The Pretenders	Song Performer
Rupert Holmes	Song Performer
Mick Jones	Song
John Coltrane	Song Performer
Dallas String Band	Song
Chocolate Genius	Song Performer
Eytan Mirsky	Song
George Gershwin	Song
Ira Gershwin	Song
Mark Cherrie	Song
Noel Pagan	Song
Clair Marlo	Song
Alexander Baker	Song
Chrissie Hynde	Song
Hoagy Carmichael	Song
Mitchell Parish	Song
Rupert Holmes	Song
Richard Rogers	Song
Oscar Hammerstein II	Song
Production Management	Credit
Jeremy Bailey	Assistant Location Manager
Joe Cortese	Location Assistant - Location Production Assistant
Michael Taylor	Script Supervisor
Christine Kunewa Walker	Line Producer
Andy Wheeler	Production Supervisor
Michael Rochford	Location Manager
Chip Signore	Assistant Director - First Assistant Director
Chip Signore	Production Manager
Linus Hume	Post-Production Supervisor - Postproduction Supervisor
Robert Fegen	Production Supervisor - Production Administrative Supervisor
Declan Baldwin	Line Producer
Meryl Stavitz	Assistant Director - Second Assistant Director
Becky Woodward	Location Assistant - Additional Location Production Assistant
Julia King	Line Producer
Eric Lasko	Assistant Director
Matt G Sheets	Assistant Director - Additional 2nd Assistant Director
Sound	Credit
Allan Zaleski	Sound Effects Editor
George A. Lara	Foley - Foley Supervisor
Jay Peck	Foley Artist
Jeff Stern	ADR Editor
Nicholas Renbeck	Supervising Sound Editor
Whit Norris	Sound Mixer
Ron Bochar	Rerecording Mixer
Chris Fielder	Sound - Transfer Assistant
Mick Davies	Boom Operator
Visual Effects	Credit
Gary Leib	Animator
Gary Leib	Visual Effects Designer
John Kuramoto	Digital Effects Artist - Compositor
John Kuramoto	Animator
Wardrobe Hair Makeup	Credit
Murshel Lewis	Costume Supervisor
Michael Wilkinson	Costume Designer
Kimberlee Andrews	Wardrobe Assistant - Costume Assistant
R Deanna	Hair - Hair Department Head
Kathy Madison	Makeup - Additional Makeup
Robin Fields	Key Costumer
Luisa Abel	Makeup Supervisor - Makeup Department Head
Kathy Madison	Hair - Additional Hair
Deborah R Lilly	Makeup - Makeup Swing
Sarah Silver	Wardrobe Assistant - Wardrobe Intern
Deborah R Lilly	Hair - Hair Swing

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