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American Pop

Name: American Pop
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Genre: Animation, Music, Drama, History
Released: 1981-02-13
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Ron Thompson, Lisa Jane Persky, Jeffrey Lippa, Frank De Kova, Roz Kelly

1981 · 1h 36m · Animation, Music, Drama, History

IMDb 7.2 Metacritic 57 RT 68%

American Pop is a wildly ambitious animated epic from Ralph Bakshi that weaves immigrant family saga with music history—it's visually daring, narratively messy, but absolutely worth watching if you're into experimental animation and want something that swings for the fences. Skip it only if rotoscoped animation and unconventional storytelling make you uncomfortable; everyone else should dive in.

Plot

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.

Director: Ralph Bakshi

Cast: Ron Thompson, Lisa Jane Persky, Jeffrey Lippa, Frank De Kova, Roz Kelly

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