Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

American splendor [videorecording] / HBO Films in association with Fine Line Features presents a Good Machine production, a film by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini ; produced by Ted Hope ; written and directed by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : HBO Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004], c2003.

Description:

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for language.

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc. -- Drama.

Illustrators -- United States -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Closed captioning.

Other Author:

Hope, Ted.

Pulcini, Robert.

Berman, Shari Springer.

Giamatti, Paul.

Davis, Hope, 1967-

Friedlander, Judah.

Urbaniak, James, 1963-

Billings, Earl.

McCaffrey, James, 1960-2023

Moore, Maggie.

Benesch, Vivienne.

Stacey, Terry.

Suozzo, Mark.

Wilkinson, Michael.

DePrez, Thérèse.

Pekar, Harvey. American splendor.

Brabner, Joyce. Our cancer year.

HBO Films.

Fine Line Features.

Good Machine (Firm)

HBO Video (Firm)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.

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

Special features: audio commentary with directors and cast featurette: Sundance Channel's "Anatomy of a scene"; music only track: "American splendor song"; special "My movie year" 6 page comic insert that appeared in "Entertainment Weekly"; DVD ROM features including screen saver; Easter eggs; original theatrical trailer.

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

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

DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned.

Cannes Film Festival, 2003: FIPRESCI Prize Un Certain Regard (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini).

ISBN:

0783123876

Publisher Number:

92031

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

133100

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE American

Medium:

[videorecording]