Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic (1973)

R 17 Nov 1973 • Animation, Comedy, Drama • 1h 17m
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An animated feature which begins, ends and occasionally combines with, live-action filmed on location. A white dropout struggles to create comics and animated films, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his run-down apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nut-case of a Jewish mother, he is 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. This cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, destroyed by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God. Complications ensue when the cartoonist's parents react in irrational ways to his various involvements.

Ralph Bakshi
Director
Ralph Bakshi
Writer
Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova
Starring

Language: English, Italian, Yiddish
Awards:
Country: United States
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Box Office Total: $1,343,341

6.5

IMDb (3777 votes)
89%
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