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Heavy Traffic (1973)
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Heavy Traffic represents a follow-up to animator Ralph Bakshi's first feature film, Fritz the Cat (1972). The central character is Michael, the ingenuous son of an Italian father and Jewish mother. An aspiring cartoonist, Michael leaves home in a huff and outrages his family by conducting an affair with an African-American woman. Heavy Traffic was originally intended to be a cartoon adaptation of Hubert Selby's notorious novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, but negotiations fell through, and Bakshi was obliged to cook up a similar but not identical "mean streets" plotline. (Last Exit to Brooklyn was made as a live-action film in 1989.) ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Director(s):
Ralph Bakshi
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
R
Format(s):
DVD
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    Mort I.

    Underground comix and animation first met with FRITZ THE CAT, written and directed by Ralph Bakshi and based on the comic by R. Crumb. Bakshi's follow-up, HEAVY TRAFFIC, presents Bakshi's own original characters. Animation is very experimental, with a mix of live action and various different animation techniques. Tough, brilliant, a classic.

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    Michael R.

    If you saw it in the theatres you are old like me. A lot of violence but true to the idea if turmoil and violence in the city. Cartooning is first rate. An innovative experiment, not tailored to some sensibilities.

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    Jay E.

    Made for the underground set who enjoy a story whose cache depends on stereotyping and depicting and mean sad existence perhaps with the good feeling it isn't them.

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