Beverly Hope Atkinson, Candy Candido, Frank DeKova

An animated feature which begins, ends and occasionally combines with, live-action filmed on location. A white dropout struggles to create comics and animated films, drawing inspiration from the harsh...( read more  read more... ), gritty world around him. Still sharing his run-down apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nut-case of a Jewish mother, he is 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. This cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, destroyed by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God. Complications ensue when the cartoonist's parents react in irrational ways to his various involvements.

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1,335 ratings

R, 77 min.

Directed by: Ralph Bakshi

Release Date: January 1, 1973

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DVD Release Date: September 5, 2000

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  • September 24, 2007
    Had a lot going for it, but missed something. Still a fine work from writer/director/animator Ralph Bakshi.
  • August 6, 2007
    Another great Animated Classic of the 70s
  • June 23, 2007
    Ralph Bakshi is a pervert, but he makes some damn interesting movies. Highlight: A character gets an erection and bounces on it like a pogo stick.
  • June 11, 2007
    Pure hell on celluloid.
  • February 27, 2007
    great underground cartoon from the 70s
  • January 25, 2007
    I remember seeing this one when i was younger.And was supposed 2 be rated R.it part animation part film.I'd love to see this one again.
  • November 17, 2006
    good bakshi animation. lots of weird shit and characters. worth your time if you're into that.
  • June 29, 2006
    Out of all the Ralph Bakshi movies I've seen, I think this one is my favourite. It's slightly better then Fritz the Cat. Really don't know what to say about it outside of that. Fans of animation for adults may want to check this out. It's not often that animation is used to te...( read more)ll a personal stories.

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