American Splendor

American Splendor

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American Splendor Vital Stats

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Release date 2003

Duration 101 min

Producer(s) Declan Baldwin, Ted Hope, Julia King...more

Director(s) Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini...more

Writer(s) Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Shari Springer Berman...more

Cast Chris Ambrose, Joey Krajcar, Josh Hutcherson...more

Genre Biography, Comedy,

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American Splendor Quotes

Joyce Brabner:
We are going to get through this. I understand illness. I know how to handle these things.

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Real Harvey:
[introducing on-screen character] Here's our man. Yeah, all right. Here's me. Well, the guy playin' me anyway. Even though he don't look nothin' like me. But, whatever.

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Toby Radloff:
I'm not going to be eating dinner until very late and this has got to hold me over.
Harvey Pekar:
Yeah? Whaddya got? A church function?
Toby Radloff:
No. I'm driving to Toledo to see a movie. Wouldya like to come?
Harvey Pekar:
No. Nah. I'm goin to Delaware tonight. I'm getting married.
Toby Radloff:
Oh. Why Delaware?
Harvey Pekar:
Well, you know, chick I'm marryin' is from Wilmington. Plus I gotta help her move her stuff back here. Why are you driving to Toledo to see a movie, Tob'?
Toby Radloff:
It's not playing at the Mapletown. I didn't know you had a girlfriend Harvey.
Harvey Pekar:
Yeah, yeah. We met last week.

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Harvey Pekar:
So... what are you worried about then?
Joyce Brabner:
Well, it's the way... it's the way all the different artists draw you.
Harvey Pekar:
What?
Joyce Brabner:
You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.
Harvey Pekar:
No, those are motion lines. I'm an active guy!

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Real Toby:
[looking at jellybeans on a tray] I think one might be lime. One might be like mint.
Real Harvey:
Well, what's the difference between this and this?
Real Toby:
One's cherry, one's cinnamon.
Real Harvey:
You can tell that by just looking at them?
Real Toby:
Not me. I have to put it in my mouth first.

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Harvey Pekar:
My name is Harvey Pekar - that's an unusual name - Harvey Pekar. 1960 was the year I got my first apartment and my first phone book. Now imagine my surprise when I looked up my name and saw that in addition to me, another Harvey Pekar was listed. Now I was listed as "Harvey L. Pekar", my middle name is Lawrence, and he was listed as "Harvey Pekar" therefore his was a - was a pure listing. Then in the '70s, I noticed that a third Harvey Pekar was listed in the phone book, now this filled me with curiousity. How can there be three people with such an unusual name in the world, let alone in one city? Then one day, a person I work with, expressed her sympathy with me, concerning what she thought, was the death of my father, and she pointed out an obituary notice in the newspaper for a man named Harvey Pekar. And one of his sons was named Harvey. And these were the other Harvey Pekar's. And six months later, Harvey Pekar Jr. died. And although I've met neither man, I was filled with sadness, 'what were they like?', I thought, it seemed that our lives had been linked in some indefineable way. But the story does not end there, for two years later, another 'Harvey Pekar' appeared in the phone book. Who are these people? Where do they come from? What do they do? What's in a name? Who is "Harvey Pekar"?

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Real Harvey:
If you think reading comics about your life seems strange, try watching a play about it. God only knows how I'll feel when I see this movie.

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Toby Radloff:
I consider myself a nerd.

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Harvey Pekar:
You don't have any problems with moving to Cleveland?
Joyce Brabner:
Not really. I find most American cities to be depressing in the same way.
Harvey Pekar:
And you're OK with the vasectomy thing?

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Real Harvey:
I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up.

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Harvey Pekar:
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

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Joyce Brabner:
Why does everything in my life have to be such a complicated disaster?

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