Edit "American Pop" is the animated story of a very talented and troubled family starting with 19th century Russia and moving through several generations of musicians. The film covers American popular music from the pre-jazz age through rhythm and blues, 1950s rock 'n' roll, drug-laden psychedelia, and punk rock, finally ending with the onset of New Wave in the early 1980s. Written by
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Whether you dance to it, drive to it, sing with it or swing to it. If you can crank it up, plug it in, or switch it on. If it assaults your senses, rocks your body, or touches your soul, it's American Pop.
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View content advisory » Edit The two dancers in the "Sing Sing Sing With a Swing" montage are the rotoscoped Nicholas brothers in
Stormy Weather (1943).
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When Pete is playing "Night Moves" in the recording studio, his fingers are moving up on the piano although the notes in the song can clearly be heard going high to low.
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Palumbo:
Don't you think it's time for a wedding?
Zalmie:
How can I ask her? I don't have a cent.
Palumbo:
You should have thought of that before you got her pregnant.
Zalmie:
Who thinks at a time like that?
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In 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.
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Edited from
Applause (1929)
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American Pop Overture
Arranged by
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