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
Heavy Traffic
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
1973 · 1h 17m · R
Animation, Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Ralph Bakshi
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Heavy Traffic
Overview
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 and cast
- Ralph Bakshi Director
- Joseph Kaufmann as Michael Corleone
- Beverly Hope Atkinson as Carole
- Frank De Kova as Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
- Terry Haven as Ida Corleone (voice)
- Mary Dean Lauria as Molly (voice)
- Jacqueline Mills as Rosalyn Schecter (voice)
- Lillian Adams as Rosa (voice)
- Jamie Farr as Arcade Owner
- Robert Easton Cast
- Charles Gordone as Crazy Moe (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Rotten
There's something to offend everyone in this melange of crudely conceived, amateurishly animated stuff.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
A cruel, funny, heartbreaking love note to a city kept alive by its freaks, and always, always dying.
Roger Greenspun, New York Times
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
Rotten
The quality of the animation is cornflake packet standard, the script -- one or two minor moments excepted -- a disaster.
Time Out
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