Harvey Pekar

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Harvey Pekar

Born 1939-10-08 Cleveland, Ohio, United States 7 films

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Harvey Lawrence Pekar ( October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name. Pekar described American Splendor as "an autobiography written as it's happening. The theme is about staying alive. Getting a…

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Filmography

7 films

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David, a struggling comic book creator from Cleveland, spends his days cutting grass and his nights…

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Hero Tomorrow

★ 0.0 2007

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away poster

A traveling frozen-food salesman checks into a motel to kill himself. Only his notebook, his travel…

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All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

★ 6.0 2004

Curmudgeon. Contrarian. Misanthrope. Naysayer. For all the people interviewed in this film, someone…

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I, Curmudgeon

★ 7.3 2004

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An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Peka…

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American Splendor

★ 7.1 2003

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Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.

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Vinyl

★ 7.4 2000

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A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated…

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Comic Book Confidential

★ 6.7 1989

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Sometimes City is a punchy, punkish, video-shot collage that builds into a hard-knock, persuasively…

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Sometimes City

★ 0.0 Soon