Heavy Traffic

“More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!”

• 1973
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• 1h 17m
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• NC-17

• Animation
• Comedy
• Drama

★ 6.5 TMDB Rating · 90 votes

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

Release date

Aug 8, 1973

Original language

English

Origin

United States