Heavy Traffic (1973)
6.5
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08 Aug 1973
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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.
Featured Crew
| Ralph Bakshi | Screenplay |
| Ralph Bakshi | Director |
| Milton Gray | Animation |
| Art Vitello | Animation |
| Ted C. Bemiller | Cinematography |
| Gregg Heschong | Cinematography |
| Donald W. Ernst | Editor |
| Gregg Heschong | Director of Photography |
| Ray Shanklin | Original Music Composer |
| Ted C. Bemiller | Director of Photography |
