Directed by:
Ralph BakshiScreenplay:
Ronni KernComposer:
Lee HoldridgeCast:
Ron Thompson, Richard Moll, Vincent Schiavelli, Lynda Wiesmeier, Mews Small, Lisa Jane Persky, Roz Kelly, Frank DeKova, Helen Morgan (a.f.), Leonard Stone (more)VOD (1)
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This sweeping epic of Americana follows four generations of angry young men and their music via the animation of director Ralph Bakshi. As the story begins, Russian immigrant song-and-dance man Louis fathers Benny, a jazz pianist who gets killed in WWII but not before fathering Tony, a sullen Brooklyn youth who runs off to San Francisco to write lyrics for a Jefferson Airplane-style acid rock band. Crippled by low self-esteem, Tony blows his chance at the big time and winds up a New York junkie in the 1970s, along with his illegitimate son, who later becomes a cocaine-dealing cartoon composite of Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Idol. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ron Thompson
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Deep Cover (1992)
American Me (1992)
Richard Moll
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
The Jericho Mile (1979) (TV movie)
Vincent Schiavelli
USA
Best movies:
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (1975)
Amadeus (1984)
L'Homme sur la lune (1999)
Lynda Wiesmeier
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Real Genius (1985)
Touch and Go (1986)
Mews Small
USA
Best movies:
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (1975)
L'Homme sur la lune (1999)
Sleeper (1973)
Lisa Jane Persky
USA
Best movies:
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
American Pop (1981)
Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
Roz Kelly
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Curse of the Black Widow (1977) (TV movie)
Greetings (1968)
Frank DeKova
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
American Pop (1981)
The Jayhawkers (1959)
Helen Morgan (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981) - a.f.
Show Boat (1936)
Applause (1929)
Leonard Stone
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Soylent Green (1973)
Lee Ving
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Clue (1985)
Get Crazy (1983)
Gene Borkan
USA
Best movies:
Se7en (1995)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Robert Beecher
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Barton Fink (1991)
Twin Falls Idaho (1999)
Ben Frommer
Poland
Best movies:
Scarface (1983)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
American Pop (1981)
Chuck Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
The Winds of War (1983) (series)
They Call Me Bruce? (1982)
Fredd Wayne
USA
Best movies:
L'Homme sur la lune (1999)
American Pop (1981)
Seven Days in May (1964)
Elsa Raven
USA
Best movies:
Back to the Future (1985)
Titanic (1997)
The Moderns (1988)
Rick Singer
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Aleshia Brevard
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Hard Country (1981)
Beatrice Colen
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Brave New World (1980) (TV movie)
High Anxiety (1977)