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Heavy Traffic
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
Animation, Comedy, Drama - 1973
Heavy Traffic
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6.5
88%
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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.
Director:
,
Ralph Bakshi
Cast:
,
Frank De Kova
,
Beverly Hope Atkinson
,
Terry Haven
,
Joseph Kaufmann
,
Mary Dean Lauria
,
Jacqueline Mills

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Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
77 min
Release date:
8 Aug 1973
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Italian, Yiddish
Budget:
$950,000
Revenue:
$1,500,000
Awards:
N/A

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Heavy Traffic not only has an authentic tenement toughness but the rough feeling of unassimilated autobiography, of experiences and fantasies still keenly felt.
– Jay Cocks,
TIME Magazine,
4 Sep 2008
rotten:
There's something to offend everyone in this melange of crudely conceived, amateurishly animated stuff.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
3 Sep 2008
fresh:
A cruel, funny, heartbreaking love note to a city kept alive by its freaks, and always, always dying.
– Roger Greenspun,
New York Times,
21 May 2003
fresh:
Bakshi manages to offend nearly everyone from transvestites to mafiosi; but the comic distancing achieved by his army of animators manages to bring off a most difficult kind of humor: the humor of pain and despair.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The quality of the animation is cornflake packet standard, the script -- one or two minor moments excepted -- a disaster.
– ,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
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