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The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.
Mews Small
- Frankie
- (voice)
- (as Marya Small)
Ron Thompson
- Tony
- (voice)
- …
Jerry Holland
- Louie
- (voice)
Lisa Jane Persky
- Bella
- (voice)
Jeffrey Lippa
- Zalmie
- (voice)
Roz Kelly
- Eva Tanguay
- (voice)
Frank DeKova
- Crisco
- (voice)
- (as Frank De Kova)
Rick Singer
- Benny
- (voice)
- (as Richard Singer)
Elsa Raven
- Hannele
- (voice)
Ben Frommer
- Palumbo
- (voice)
Amy Levitt
- Nancy
- (voice)
Leonard Stone
- Leo Stern
- (voice)
Eric Taslitz
- Little Pete
- (voice)
Gene Borkan
- Izzy
- (voice)
Richard Moll
- Beat Poet
- (voice)
Beatrice Colen
- Prostitute
- (voice)
Hilary Beane
- Showgirl #1
- (voice)
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- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe two dancers in the "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" montage are The Nicholas Brothers, Harold Nicholas and Fayard Nicholas. The animators directly rotoscoped their dance from Stormy Weather (1943).
- GoofsZalmie and his mother flee the czar in Russia but when they are in the US they speak what some people mistakenly assume is German. They're actually speaking Yiddish, which is similar to German and was the language spoken by Jews in Russia at the time.
- Crazy creditsDisclaimer before soundtrack listings: The following songs were depicted as being written by fictional characters. The producer would like to thank the true composers.
- Alternate versionsIn some versions of the film, dialog has been redone in at last two scenes, presumably to make points more clear. For example, in Little Pete's first scene, he is asked what his Dad would say about him hanging backstage with a rock band. In one version, Pete says "Nothing. He's dead." In the other version, he instead says "I never met my Dad. He's some kind of mystery" (which serves as a better setup for information learned later) Also, Tony returns to the band's apartment after his release from the hospital, only to find they have moved out. In both versions, under 'People Are Strange,' we hear him on the phone with a friend, but the phone conversations begin completely differently. In one we never learn what happened to the band, only that they seemed to have moved out and left Tony behind, while in the other we learn that the band has gone on to big things, with a gold album. Both versions' phone calls end the same way, though, with Tony desperately asking his friend for money or drugs.
- ConnectionsEdited from Applause (1929)
- SoundtracksAmerican Pop Overture
Arranged by Lee Holdridge
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I thought this film was one of the finest animation films I have ever seen. The film continually keeps building and building until it peaks at the end when the last guy becomes a star. It almost has the feel of a documentry on life in a America by the way it continually keeps pounding the nail on the head in terms of the storyline and the action scenes cut to music were absolutely brilliant. Considering this film was ahead of anything even close to this (even ahead of MTV for gods sake) it's far and away one of the finest animation films ever made. I think anyone grading this film before a eight just isn't looking at this film as a film and instead putting it against a Disney film or something that's pretty but has no point. For my money I'd easily stack this film against any other animation ever made. Also I saw some people nay saying this film because of the soundtrack, but it's all a natural progression man and in this film it shows the progression of life and music and in 1981 that's what was popular and I thought it was a great choice since it's still listen-to-able today.
Extremely great film, if you haven't yet... Go see it now!
Extremely great film, if you haven't yet... Go see it now!
- Mellow_Biafra
- Oct 1, 2002
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- Budget
- $1,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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