Heavy Traffic(1973)
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
Written by Ralph Bakshi
Overview
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.
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Budget
- $950,000
- Revenue
- $1,500,000
