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Heavy Traffic (1973) - film poster, directed by Ralph Bakshi

Heavy Traffic

1973
77 min United States Feature
Directed by
Ralph Bakshi , Steve Kranz
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Synopsis

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.

Key facts

Original language English
Production companies FILM CREATION
Home video distributors MGM Home Entertainment (United States)
Setting New York City

Crew

Producer Steve Krantz
Cinematography Gregg Heschong, Ted C. Bemiller
Editing Donald W. Ernst
Music Ray Shanklin, Ed Bogas

Trailer

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Rating

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Titles
Original title Heavy Traffic
Québec French title Flipper City
VHS & home video releases
VHS MGM Home Entertainment (cat. no. 1000949) 2000, United States, slipcase
Soundtracks
Vinyl LP Heavy Traffic (Original Sound Track Recording) - Ed Bogas, Ray Shanklin (1973) 7 releases, 1973-2000: Fantasy, Moving Image Entertainment
Cassette Heavy Traffic (Original Sound Track Recording) - Ed Bogas, Ray Shanklin (1973) 1 release, 1974: Fantasy
Versions & editions
Home video VHS United States 2000 1000949
Full credits
Director Ralph Bakshi, Steve Kranz
Producer Steve Krantz
Cinematography Gregg Heschong, Ted C. Bemiller
Editing Donald W. Ernst
Music Ray Shanklin, Ed Bogas
Identifiers & sources
Wikidata Q1592638
IMDb tt0070165
TMDB 30593
CQ 27182

Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)

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