American Splendor

What a great film! Every once in a while a movie completely slips under my radar, and I manage to see it without knowing too much about it. This was one of those cases. In a certain sense, it's a biopic, but it's also an autobiography, and a drama all wrapped together. It maintains momentum even though there's not a pressing plot (in fact, there's not much of a plot at all). There were certain moments that were just straight up beautiful. The only thing that bugged me was that Hope Davis' portrayal of Joyce felt just like Shelley Long playing Diane from Cheers, yet in the interviews on the disc with the real Joyce, there was no Diane-ness. I found that really distracting.