HEAVY TRAFFIC (FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1973
• Genre: Adult, Animation, Comedy
• Plot: 'Heavy images, crazy violence, insanely verging on the insecurity... and brilliance' (Films & Filming)! Heavy Traffic, the second feature from writer/directo Ralph Bakshi (Fritz The Cat), combines a quick-edit pace, a frenetic story line and an array of eye-popping animation and live-action styles. 'Powerful, raw and vailid' (Los Angeles Times), this 'remarkable blend' of filmic styles is a 'hypnotic, life-giving experience' (The Hollywood Reporter)!; Micheal, a young artist who lives with whith his neurotic mother and two-timing father, escapes the absurd and often ugly side of life on New York's tough streets by satirizing its rich yet wacky characters in wildly entertaining cartoons. From the gruff homeless and wisecracking prostitutes to gun-toting gangsters and corrupt cops, Michael's world becomes an outlandish Kaleidoscope of shocking images and horrifying events that are either a testament of his imagination...or a reminder of the strangeness of reality.
• Cast: Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova, Terri Haven, Mary Dean Lauria, Jacqueline Mills, Lillian Adams, Charles Gordone, Michael Brandon, Morton Lewis, Bill Striglos, Jay Lawrence, Lee Weaver, Phyllis Thompson, Kim Hamilton, Carol Graham, Candy Candido, Helene Winston, William Keene, Peter Hobbs, John Bleifer, Ralph Bakshi, Jimmy Bates, Walt Gorney
• Director: Ralph Bakshi
• Runtime: 1:16
• Company: American International Pictures, MGM DVD
• Media Format: Movie