Heavy Traffic
Heavy Traffic

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An animated feature which begins, ends and occasionally combines with, live-action filmed on location. A white dropout struggles to create comics and animated films, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his run-down apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nut-case of a Jewish mother, he is ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Ma... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Heavy Traffic:

Joseph Kaufmann
Beverly Hope Atkinson
Frank De Kova
Terry Haven
Mary Dean Lauria
Jacqueline Mills

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An animated feature which begins, ends and occasionally combines with, live-action filmed on location. A white dropout struggles to create comics and animated films, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his run-down apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nut-case of a Jewish mother, he is 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. This cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, destroyed by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God. Complications ensue when the cartoonist's parents react in irrational ways to his various involvements.

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New York Times - 9/10 by Roger GreenspunA cruel, funny, heartbreaking love note to a city kept alive by its freaks, and always, always dying.
TIME Magazine - 8/10 by Jay CocksHeavy Traffic not only has an authentic tenement toughness but the rough feeling of unassimilated autobiography, of experiences and fantasies still keenly felt.
Aisle Seat - 7/10 by Mike McGranaghanHeavy Traffic may be a bit dated in terms of its distinct '70s tone, but that doesn't make it any less fascinating. If you're a fan of the animation genre, this certainly qualifies as essential viewing.
Chicago Reader - 6/10 by Don DrukerBakshi 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.
User Review - 10/10 by Rhett PThis is my favorite of Ralph Bakshi's films and I also think it is his most insane creation since this film goes off on such a wild tangent dealing with a wide variety of issues like racism, crime, stereotypes, and more. This is definitely a very expressive and strange film unlike anything I've ever seen, and will be offensive to many people, but that's what I love about it. I love it in all of its insane glory.
User Review - 10/10 by john RI own this movie for blu ray I just love this film like his two best films are fritz the cat and heavy traffic I love the background I love this film ralph bakshi is like walt Disney for adult cartoons
User Review - 10/10 by Keaton BLegitimate proof that animation should never be referred to as "kid-safe", "inoffensive", or "something-that-pleases-children-but-bores-adults", because this is unashamedly violent, profane, crass, and perverted, coupled with the fact that it's brilliantly animated and well-crafted by Ralph Bakshi.
User Review - 10/10 by danny li think Heavy traffic is a amazing movie but its not for kids because its rated R and is very vilonte and has swearing and nudity
User Review - 10/10 by Stuart KAfter Fritz the Cat (1972) made a lot of money being the first X-rated cartoon, director Ralph Bakshi was offered to do the sequel The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974), he turned that down in favour of something alot more personal. It's an episodic, personal odyssey, but it's absolutely brilliant as well. This tells the story of young twentysomething cartoonist Michael Corleone (Joseph Kaufmann), who we see in live-action playing pinball, but it disolves into animation as it shows his family life, his Italian father Angelo (Frank DeKova) has connection with the Mafia and work unions who is constantly cheating on his Jewish wife Ida (Terri Haven), they constantly fight but Michael tends to ignore them and he carries on with his cartoons. In a bar, he meets black bartender Carole (Beverly Hope Atkinson), who accepts to hang out with Michael because she likes his cartoons, his father doesn't approve of his son going out with a black girlfriend, and he's having problems of his own with the union, and Carole and Michael have aspirations of moving out to California together. It's a brilliant film done with a raw energy and Bakshi's visual eye, from mixing animated characters on real streets to old 1930's cartoon sketches coming to life, but it perfectly encapsulates the angst someone in their 20's go through, it's as relevant now as it was then, and the soundtrack is brilliant as well.
User Review - 10/10 by Blais ERalph Bakshi's earthy, gritty, grimy animated urban comedy/drama, kind of like his earlier "Fritz the Cat" with humans. Taboo-breaking, disturbing, & frequently disgusting, and if you're a fan of the great Bakshi's work, you definitely won't be disappointed! Definitely NOT for children, the squeamish, the overly impressionable, or those without a sense of humor!

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