Where to Watch Heavy Traffic (1973) in the US

What it's about

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.

Cast and crew

Director

Ralph Bakshi

Writer

Ralph Bakshi

Starring

Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova

Details

Release date

Nov 17, 1973

Language

English, Italian, Yiddish

Country

United States

Box office

$1,343,341

Where to Watch Heavy Traffic (1973) in the US — common questions

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