Heavy Traffic (1973)
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
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.
Key facts
- Released:
- 1973-08-08
- Runtime:
- 77 min
- Genres:
- Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Director:
- Ralph Bakshi
- Top cast:
- Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank De Kova, Terry Haven, Mary Dean Lauria, Jacqueline Mills
- Original language:
- EN
- TMDB rating:
- 6.5/10 from 81 votes
- Bynge Score:
- 6.1/10