Small triumphs in life celebrated nicely...

Harvey Pekar is a comic book writer who worked with Robert Crumb in writing many of the comics that Crumb illustrated and that were drawn by dozens of fine independent artists for the past thirty or so years. He's also a strange, somewhat anti-social man who is about as far from a typical movie hero as I cna imagine. And the filmmakers do a great job using the real Harvey throughout the film - and his real friends and wife - to show how normal but wonderful these people are. He's a tough guy to love and occasionally a tough protagonist to root for, but they've done a great job showing a life.

It's also a better acting job by Paul Giamatti than he did in Sideways - a film that I thought was totally overrated, by the by - and got robbed in not even being nominated for acting nods for this one. It's loads of fun, another high recommendation...