Movie
Heavy Traffic (1973)
77 min
- Animation
- Comedy
- Drama
- Director
- Ralph Bakshi
- Released
- August 8, 1973
Synopsis
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.
Cast
- Joseph Kaufmann
- Beverly Hope Atkinson
- Frank De Kova
- Terry Haven
- Mary Dean Lauria
- Jacqueline Mills
- Lillian Adams
- Jamie Farr
- Robert Easton
- Charles Gordone
- Michael Brandon
- Morton Lewis