Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Sapir
  • Sandbag Dam
  • Rains Over Babel
  • Midnight in Bali
  • Gai(e), tu ne seras point
  • Elementary
  • Garbo: Where Did You Go?
  • Bikechess
  • Act Up Ou Le Chaos
  • One of Them Days
  • Presence
  • Clean Slate
  • Somewhere in Love
  • Endless
  • Halloween Ball (The)
  • In Ashes
  • Bad Reputation
  • Akin's Desert
  • Quir
  • Parque de diversões
  • Odd Fish
  • Moment for Love (A)
  • Love Me
  • Under the Southern Cross: The Art and Legacy of Henry L. Faulkner
  • Those Who Wait
  • Found Photo (The)
  • Surfacing
  • Armand
  • Bliss
  • Cheers to Life
  • Full Support
  • Who Wants to Marry an Astronaut?
  • Queer Church
  • Better Man
  • Fugue
  • Frikis (Los)
  • Blue for a Boy
  • Best Friend (The)
  • Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion
  • Diosa

Coonskin

Country: USA, Language: English, 100 mins

  • Director: Ralph Bakshi
  • Writer: Ralph Bakshi
  • Producer: Alan P. Horowitz; Albert S. Ruddy

CGiii Comment

Not exactly the pinnacle of political correctness...

Bakshi's claim to fame is the original animated The Lord of the Rings (1978) and what a pile of crap that was.

Coonskin is unashamedly in-your-face, it sets out and delivers some of the most offensive exploitation material ever shown on the big screen.

He presents us with exaggerated images of black people, Italians/mafioso, homosexuals, Jews, general New York-types in Manhattan of the 70s, his intention is not realism hence the animation - you will squirm, wince and cringe...but, it is superior in its inventiveness and is a whack in the face to every exploitative film ever made.

There is no subtle facade - raw and painful.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.

Cast & Characters

Barry White as Sampson / Brother Bear;
Charles Gordone as Preacherman / Preacher Fox;
Scatman Crothers as Pappy / Old Man Bone;
Philip Michael Thomas as Randy / Brother Rabbit;
Danny Rees as Clown;
Buddy Douglas as Referee;
Jim Moore as Mime;
Ralph Bakshi as Cop with megaphone;
Ben Gage as Brother Bear;
Al Lewis as The Godfather;
Richard Paul as Sonny