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Synopsis: A persiflage on the protest movements of the 60s. Its hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb. Quitting university Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther and Hell's Angels scenes to find to himself.
Director(s): Ralph Bakshi
Production: American International Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
UNRATED
Year:
1972
78 min
1,774 Views


to black people.

I'm Jewish, you know.

I ain't no jive-ass

black n*gger, honey.

Who do you think I am?

Geraldine?

Oh, God!

Oh, Jesus!

How awful.

My soul is tormented.

-Gee.

-Oh, no.

I've been up and down the four

corners of this big old world.

I've seen it all!

I've done it all!

-Gee.

-Wow.

I've fought many a good man,

laid many a good woman.

I've had riches and fame

and adventure.

Stood face to face with danger

and death countless times.

Are you somebody famous?

I think I saw you

in a movie once.

Try not to interrupt, huh?

I've tasted life

to the fullest...

and still my soul cries out...

in this hungry, tortured,

wrecked quest, "More!"

-Look at the good side of life.

-Things aren't all bad.

Gee, he's handsome.

You. You can help me.

You must save me.

By so doing, you, too,

will be saved.

I'd like to, but what can I do?

Lovely set of eyes there.

Little sweet one

with your heart of gold...

I know of a place

where we can be alone...

to join our souls

in sacred truth.

I want to be in on this thing.

What about my soul,

you fink?

Four in bed...that's a kick

I haven't tried yet.

What?

Yes. Together

we shall all learn...

the real existential essence

of the life force.

"Existential."

I heard that word once.

-What's it mean?

-"Cool," stupid.

You are a true genius, Fritz.

Wild, this is wild.

Oh, honey, I could go...

I'll get it. God damn it.

What's happening, man?

Fritz the Cat has become

the stud of the year.

We're having a session here now,

so I don't know.

Anybody using that room?

That's the john,

I mean...

if you're really

strung out, man.

We'll take it.

This way, group.

Come along, now,

step lively.

Watch your step.

That's a girl.

Rub-a-dub-a-dub.

OK.

A new world of experience

awaits us, my loves.

This bathtub

is now transformed...

into a space capsule

of truth and love.

Wow! This is wild!

Only in naked closeness

can we all know each other.

Yes! Right!

Very good, Winston, darling.

"Naked closeness," true.

You are a perceptive girl.

Closeness,

we must all get very close...

as close as possible,

as a matter of fact.

That's right.

Let's all get close together.

Oh, boy.

Closeness and fulfillment

of our hidden desires...

through which

we reach the truth.

Fulfillment is important.

Don't you think so, Winston?

Ooh, yes.

Very important.

Now I'm getting to the truth,

I think, yes.

It's all very clear now.

OK, Winston.

Here come the truth.

You got the word.

Oh, Fritzy.

You got such

an existential little body.

Jeez. Wow.

Oh, sh*t!

Maybe we better go, huh?

No! Not at all!

You get down over here.

And you down like that.

Right under here.

Watch the foot.

Right under here.

Ready, everyone.

Here we go.

Hey, Ralph,

I think this is the place...

we got the report on

with these kids upstairs...

doing the sh*t and smoking,

I think.

Tell me what to do.

I never went in before.

Because you're a rookie

and this is your first beat...

you just follow me.

We walk up the steps.

We don't make any noise.

You follow me slowly, got that?

I do. Like Dick Tracy.

No, it's like

Terry and the Pirates.

Dick Tracy's old hat.

Now, let's go inside.

Wait. Could I get

to search the girls?

Yeah.

I've done enough of that.

Here we go.

And watch me,

'cause I'm a natural in action.

Up the steps.

Hey, man.

What the hell's

going on in here?

For Christ's sake,

what do you want?

For Christ's sake...

Fritz is having his own

private little orgy.

Move over, man.

Will you get out of here?

We're seeking the truth!

It's my bathtub, man.

Don't pay attention

to that Fritz.

He got a Jesus complex.

Oh, I know it.

Have some joy puff,

sweet little bird.

Hello, New York.

Heard you're having

a hash session here.

Wow, this is where it's at.

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Ralph Bakshi

Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 2015, he directed ten theatrically released feature films, six of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator. Beginning his career at the Terrytoons television cartoon studio as a cel polisher, Bakshi was eventually promoted to animator, and then director. He moved to the animation division of Paramount Pictures in 1967 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968. Through producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi made his debut feature film, Fritz the Cat, released in 1972. It was the first animated film to receive an X rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and the most successful independent animated feature of all time. Over the next eleven years, Bakshi directed seven additional animated features. He is well known for such films as Wizards (1977), The Lord of the Rings (1978), American Pop (1981) and Fire and Ice (1983). In 1987, Bakshi returned to television work, producing the series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which ran for two years. After a nine-year hiatus from feature films, he directed Cool World (1992), which was largely rewritten during production and received poor reviews. Bakshi returned to television with the live-action film Cool and the Crazy (1994) and the anthology series Spicy City (1997). During the 2000s, he focused largely on fine art and painting and in 2003 co-founded The Bakshi School of Animation with his son Eddie and Jess Gorell. Bakshi has received several awards for his work, including the 1980 Golden Gryphon for The Lord of the Rings at the Giffoni Film Festival, the 1988 Annie Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation, and the 2003 Maverick Tribute Award at the Cinequest Film Festival. more…

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