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…
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Joseph Kaufmann
Michael Corleone
Director
Ralph Bakshi
Top cast
Joseph Kaufmann·Beverly Hope Atkinson·Frank De Kova·Terry Haven·Mary Dean Lauria·Jacqueline Mills·Lillian Adams·Jamie Farr