Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
American Splendor
Scored from 169 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A biographical portrait of Harvey Pekar, a file clerk at a Cleveland VA hospital whose mundane frustrations and observations become the basis for his cult underground comic book series. The film blends dramatized scenes starring Paul Giamatti with documentary footage of the real Pekar, following his friendship with cartoonist Robert Crumb, his courtship of bookstore clerk Joyce Brabner, and his uneasy brushes with fame on Late Night with David Letterman.
American Splendor is a 2003 biography, comedy and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,067 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 169 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 172 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
Is American Splendor (2003) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 169
Cohort: Films · 2000s
