American Pop
strong violence, drug misuse, sexual harassment, images of real dead bodies
Director(s)Ralph Bakshi
Production year1981
Genre(s)Animation, Drama
Approx. running minutes96m
CastMews Small, Ron Thompson, Ron Thompson, Jerry Holland, Lisa Jane Persky, Jeffrey Lippa, Roz Kelly, Frank DeKova, Rick Singer, Elsa Raven, Ben Frommer, Ralph Bakshi, Ronni Kern, Ralph Bakshi, Martin Ransohoff, Lee Holdridge, David Ramirez, Bob Morones
American Pop
strong violence, drug misuse, sexual harassment, images of real dead bodies
AMERICAN POP is an animated drama concerning the lives of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of music ...
AMERICAN POP is an animated drama concerning the lives of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians.
violence
In one scene, a man places a gun barrel against another man's head and pulls the trigger, accompanied by a large blood spurt. There are also scenes in which men are shot, accompanied by blood spurts.
A mother knocks her young son to the floor after he misses a religious class. A man shouts in anger at his step-children.
drugs
People smoke marijuana. In one scene, a man consumes LSD and subsequently experiences hallucinations before falling and breaking his arm. There is a scene in which a woman ties off her arm in readiness for a heroin injection. There are also scenes of drug-dealing, and verbal references to drug misuse.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A female sex worker briefly slaps a boy's backside as he passes her in the street, and in another scene a man pinches a female performer's buttocks.
disturbing images
The film contains images of real dead bodies, some of which are bloodstained following shootings.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
additional issues
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'bastard', 'shit', 'ass', 'God, 'damn', 'hell'). There is also brief use of a dated racial term ('negro') in a scene in which a man recites Allen Ginsberg's poem 'Howl'.
Scenes of threat include Jews fleeing a pogrom in Tsarist Russia, and one in which women try to flee a burning sweatshop but realise too late that the doors are barred and they cannot escape.
Moderate sex references include posters showing sexualised nudity and implied sexual activity, as well as brief sight of a female pin-up photo with buttock nudity.
There are scenes of emotional upset, and which include people grieving over dead bodies.
Classified Date:
23/03/1981
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia-Emi-Warner Dists Ltd
strong violence, drug misuse, sexual harassment, images of real dead bodies
Classified Date:
13/09/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
SPHE VOD
violence
In one scene, a man places a gun barrel against another man's head and pulls the trigger, accompanied by a large blood spurt. There are also scenes in which men are shot, accompanied by blood spurts.
A mother knocks her young son to the floor after he misses a religious class. A man shouts in anger at his step-children.
drugs
People smoke marijuana. In one scene, a man consumes LSD and subsequently experiences hallucinations before falling and breaking his arm. There is a scene in which a woman ties off her arm in readiness for a heroin injection. There are also scenes of drug-dealing, and verbal references to drug misuse.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A female sex worker briefly slaps a boy's backside as he passes her in the street, and in another scene a man pinches a female performer's buttocks.
disturbing images
The film contains images of real dead bodies, some of which are bloodstained following shootings.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
violence
In one scene, a man places a gun barrel against another man's head and pulls the trigger, accompanied by a large blood spurt. There are also scenes in which men are shot, accompanied by blood spurts.
A mother knocks her young son to the floor after he misses a religious class. A man shouts in anger at his step-children.
drugs
People smoke marijuana. In one scene, a man consumes LSD and subsequently experiences hallucinations before falling and breaking his arm. There is a scene in which a woman ties off her arm in readiness for a heroin injection. There are also scenes of drug-dealing, and verbal references to drug misuse.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A female sex worker briefly slaps a boy's backside as he passes her in the street, and in another scene a man pinches a female performer's buttocks.
disturbing images
The film contains images of real dead bodies, some of which are bloodstained following shootings.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
additional issues
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'bastard', 'shit', 'ass', 'God, 'damn', 'hell'). There is also brief use of a dated racial term ('negro') in a scene in which a man recites Allen Ginsberg's poem 'Howl'.
Scenes of threat include Jews fleeing a pogrom in Tsarist Russia, and one in which women try to flee a burning sweatshop but realise too late that the doors are barred and they cannot escape.
Moderate sex references include posters showing sexualised nudity and implied sexual activity, as well as brief sight of a female pin-up photo with buttock nudity.
There are scenes of emotional upset, and which include people grieving over dead bodies.
Director(s)Ralph Bakshi
Production year1981
Genre(s)Animation, Drama
Approx. running minutes96m
CastMews Small, Ron Thompson, Ron Thompson, Jerry Holland, Lisa Jane Persky, Jeffrey Lippa, Roz Kelly, Frank DeKova, Rick Singer, Elsa Raven, Ben Frommer, Ralph Bakshi, Ronni Kern, Ralph Bakshi, Martin Ransohoff, Lee Holdridge, David Ramirez, Bob Morones
Classified Date:
23/03/1981
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia-Emi-Warner Dists Ltd
strong violence, drug misuse, sexual harassment, images of real dead bodies
Classified Date:
13/09/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
SPHE VOD
violence
In one scene, a man places a gun barrel against another man's head and pulls the trigger, accompanied by a large blood spurt. There are also scenes in which men are shot, accompanied by blood spurts.
A mother knocks her young son to the floor after he misses a religious class. A man shouts in anger at his step-children.
drugs
People smoke marijuana. In one scene, a man consumes LSD and subsequently experiences hallucinations before falling and breaking his arm. There is a scene in which a woman ties off her arm in readiness for a heroin injection. There are also scenes of drug-dealing, and verbal references to drug misuse.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A female sex worker briefly slaps a boy's backside as he passes her in the street, and in another scene a man pinches a female performer's buttocks.
disturbing images
The film contains images of real dead bodies, some of which are bloodstained following shootings.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
