Animation Comedy Drama

Heavy Traffic (1973)

Name: Heavy Traffic
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1973-08-08
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank De Kova, Terry Haven, Mary Dean Lauria

"More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!"

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1h 17m English Released

Director: Ralph Bakshi

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.