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A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
1973 · Directed by Ralph Bakshi · 77 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
Crew
- Screenplay: Ralph Bakshi
- Cinematography: Ted C. Bemiller, Gregg Heschong
- Edited by: Donald W. Ernst
- Music: Ed Bogas, Ray Shanklin
- Produced by: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Steve Krantz
Cast
- Joseph Kaufmann as Michael Corleone
- Beverly Hope Atkinson as Carole
- Frank De Kova as Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
- Terry Haven as Ida Corleone (voice)
- Mary Dean Lauria as Molly (voice)
- Jacqueline Mills as Rosalyn Schecter (voice)
- Lillian Adams as Rosa (voice)
- Jamie Farr as Arcade Owner
- Robert Easton
- Charles Gordone as Crazy Moe (voice)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Italian, Yiddish
- Studios: Steve Krantz Productions, Cine Camera, American International Pictures
- Budget: $950,000
- Box office: $1,500,000
- Themes: virgin, sexual frustration, surrealism, urban life, marijuana, interracial relationship, pinball, sexual attraction, adult animation
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