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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
6.7
89%
N/A
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
76 min
Release date:
8 Aug 1973
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Italian, Yiddish
Budget:
$950,000
Revenue:
$1,500,000

Top Critics Reviews

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
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
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
rotten:
There's something to offend everyone in this melange of crudely conceived, amateurishly animated stuff.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
3 Sep 2008
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
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