Paul Giamatti gives a typically committed performance as Harvey Pekar, comic book writer and personality, with Hope Davis as his wife and Judah Friedlander, also featuring (rather successfully) the real Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner and Toby Radloff. This couple made The Nanny Diaries; she plays the interviewer and Pulcini the film director - he also edited it. Terry Stacy filmed it in dour Cleveland locations, and Robert Crumb is one of the artists featured.
The unfolding story of the little girl they eventually adopt is unexpectedly sweet. Pekar died in 2010.
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