65%User score 65 percent
Super
2010 · Comedy · Action
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551 votes
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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CinemaSerf
July 6, 2026
With his glass invariably half-empty, poor old Harvey (Paul Giammatti) discovers that he hasn't got throat cancer, but does have a nodule on his throat that will curtail his ability to speak for a few months. That proves to be quite a problem when he returns home to find his girlfriend is leaving him! Now on his own, he takes more solace in his mundane job as a clerk at an hospital where he engages with his colleague…
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