American Splendor

'Factional' docu-drama about a real-life hospital clerk, Harvey Pekar, who reinvented himself as a comic-book hero in his own comic, American Splendour. Pekar appears, playing himself, but Giamatti plays Pekar. Confused? Maybe that's the idea; but life-imitating-art-imitating-life concept is hugely intriguing, and the real-life characters are as idiosyncratic as anything you'll find in comic-books.