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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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Chris Ambrose |
Joey Krajcar |
Josh Hutcherson |
Cameron Carter |
Daniel Tay |
Mary Faktor |
Paul Giamatti |
Harvey Pekar |
Larry John Meyers |
Vivienne Benesch |
Barbara Brown |
Earl Billings |
Danny Hoch |
James Urbaniak |
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Shari Springer Berman |
Robert Pulcini |
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Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's and Shadow's friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet.
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Denzel Washington |
Spike Lee |
Wesley Snipes |
Giancarlo Esposito |
Robin Harris |
Joie Lee |
Bill Nunn |
John Turturro |
Dick Anthony Williams |
Cynda Williams |
Nicholas Turturro |
Jeff 'Tain' Watts |
Samuel L. Jackson |
Leonard L. Thomas |
Charles Q. Murphy |
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Spike Lee |
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A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. We follow Ray's life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music.
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Sean Penn |
Samantha Morton |
Uma Thurman |
Brian Markinson |
Anthony LaPaglia |
James Urbaniak |
Gretchen Mol |
John Waters |
Brad Garrett |
Woody Allen |
Ben Duncan |
Daniel Okrent |
Dan Moran |
Tony Darrow |
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