About this episode
The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2003 features the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman’s American Splendor . Written and directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (based on the comics by Harvey Pekar) and starring Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis and Judah Friedlander, American Splendor premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/american-splendor-2003 ), Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly ( https://ew.com/article/2003/08/14/american-splendor-2/ ), and Manohla Dargis in the Los Angeles Times ( https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-15-et-dargis15-story.html ). Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 2003 installment featuring the Best Picture Oscar winner, Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King .