HEAVY TRAFFIC (FULL SCREEN)

Details

• Release Year: 1973
• Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
• Plot: 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: Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova
• Director: Ralph Bakshi
• Runtime: 77 min
• Media Format: movie