- HD 1080
- Runtime: 101m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
- Stars: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, James Urbaniak, Earl Billings
- keywords: biography, based on comic, v.a. hospital, junk sale, jellybean, greeting card, file clerk, garage sale, comic book art, neurotic, woman director, cleveland, ohio
- Production_studio: HBO Films, Good Machine
- Slogan: Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff
- providers: Max, Max Amazon Channel
- The American Splendor is featured in the top rankings of 2003
- #16 in Top Comedy Movies of 2003
- #44 in Top Drama Movies of 2003
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.