“Welcome to the Kaufman surreal-neorealism tale in a dull world of sameness.”
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$8,000,000
Revenue
$5,700,000
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 war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
