Heavy Traffic (1973)

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

• Animation
• Comedy
• Drama

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.

Rating

6.5 / 10 (90 votes)

Release date

August 8, 1973

Runtime

1h 17m

Language

English

Director

Ralph Bakshi

Status

Released