Top billed cast

1. 

   Paul Giamatti

   Harvey Pekar

2. 

   Hope Davis

   Joyce Brabner

3. 

   Judah Friedlander

   Toby Radloff

4. 

   James Urbaniak

   Robert Crumb

5. 

   Earl Billings

   Mr. Boats

6. 

   James McCaffrey

   Fred

7. 

   Maggie Moore

   Alice Quinn

8. 

   Vivienne Benesch

   Lana

9. 

   Daniel Tay

   Young Harvey

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-07-06

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 colleagues about the price of jellybeans (and their suitability for abstinence during lent) whilst at home, he immerses himself in his books and his extensive collection of second hand jazz...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$2,000,000.00

Revenue
$6,003,587.00

Keywords

• comic book
• biography
• based on comic
• v.a. hospital
• junk sale
• jellybean
• greeting card
• file clerk
• garage sale
• comic book art
• neurotic
• comic book artist
• woman director
• wilmington
• delaware
• comic book writer
• cleveland, ohio