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Heavy Traffic (1973)

Heavy Traffic (1973)

Heavy Traffic (1973)

Heavy Traffic is a 1973 animation movie directed by Ralph Bakshi, with a running time of 1h 17m. It stars Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson and Frank De Kova.

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.

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What is Heavy Traffic about?

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.

When was Heavy Traffic released?

Heavy Traffic was released on 8 August 1973.

How long is Heavy Traffic?

Heavy Traffic runs 1h 17m.

Who made Heavy Traffic?

Heavy Traffic was directed by Ralph Bakshi.

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