Hey Good Lookin' is a 1982 American adult animated coming of age comedy-drama film written, directed, and produced by Ralph Bakshi.

The film takes place in Brooklyn during the 1950s and focuses on Vinnie, the leader of a gang named the Stompers, his friend Crazy Shapiro, and their respective girlfriends Roz and Eva.

The film stars the voices of Richard Romanus, David Proval, Tina Bowman, and Jesse Welles.

In 1982, a very different version of the film was released; much of the live-action sequences were replaced by animation, and dialogue was heavily rewritten and reedited.

It was given a limited release in the United States and went largely unnoticed; it performed respectably in foreign markets, and developed a cult following.

They arrive at a bar where they meet up with two prostitutes and go to sleep on the beach, waking up to find themselves close to a group of showering women and their mobster husbands.

Crazy ends up shooting two of the black gang members in an alley dead, which scares Vinnie into ditching town, Rozzie, and the rumble.

Sal steps out of protection and is killed by a stray bullet, causing both gangs to cease fire and back away.

As Rozzie calls up a radio station to make a memorial request in honor of Vinnie, he stands up and walks away, unseen by anyone else.

In a bar back in the present day, the mysterious middle-aged man finishes his tale by explaining that Vinnie left due to the heartbreak he felt at Crazy's death.

She calls him out for his cowardice and bluffs that her husband will be arriving shortly, fully expecting him to avoid another fight and leave again.

After production concluded on Coonskin, Bakshi wanted to distinguish himself artistically by producing a film in which live action and animated characters would interact.

[2][3] Bakshi began writing the screenplay for Hey Good Lookin' while editing Coonskin, and storyboarding a proposed series for ABC.

[2] The characters of Vinnie and Crazy Shapiro were based upon Bakshi's high school friends, Norman Darrer and Allen Schechterman.

[2] Following controversy over the film Coonskin, some black animators left Bakshi's studio in embarrassment, resulting in production problems for Hey Good Lookin'.

[2][5] Mean Streets actors Richard Romanus and David Proval were cast as the voices of Vinnie and Crazy Shapiro.

[5] Bakshi financed the film's completion himself out of the director's fees for other projects he headed from 1976 until 1982, including Wizards, The Lord of the Rings, and American Pop.

[2] Following the success of Heavy Metal and American Pop, Warner Bros. became excited about the second version of Hey Good Lookin', forming a specialty division for the film's distribution.

[2] Though a soundtrack album was not originally released at the time of the film's theatrical distribution, in 2006 the Hey Good Lookin' soundtrack was produced as a burned compact disc release of music from the film, with PC-printed inlays, through the independent record label That Philly Sound.

There is a wildly imaginative fantasy sequence during the climax, when the character named Crazy starts hallucinating during a rooftop shooting spree.