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Heavy Traffic (1973)

Heavy Traffic (1973)

Drama Comedy Animation

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

Release Date: 1973, August 8
Directors: Ralph Bakshi
Countries: United States of America
Production: Steve Krantz Productions, Steve Krantz Productions, Cine Camera, Cine Camera, American International Pictures, American International Pictures
Cast: Frank De Kova, Lee Weaver, Candy Candido, Michael Brandon, Lillian Adams, Walt Gorney, Jimmy Bates, Kim Hamilton, Jamie Farr, Charles Gordone, Peter Hobbs, Jay Lawrence

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.

Keywords:

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