Heavy Traffic
– An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters ..
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
17 Nov 1973
English, Italian, Yiddish
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi
Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova, Terri Haven
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.
American International Pictures