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Heavy Traffic
Directed by
Ralph Bakshi
1973
76m
NC-17
Animation
,
Comedy
,
Drama
6.5
89%
74%
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An underground cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his art.
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Cast of Heavy Traffic
Joseph Kaufmann
Michael Corleone
Beverly Hope Atkinson
Carole
Frank De Kova
Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
Terry Haven
Ida Corleone (voice)
Mary Dean Lauria
Molly (voice)
Jacqueline Mills
Rosalyn Schecter (voice)
Lillian Adams
Rosa (voice)
Jamie Farr
Arcade Owner
Robert Easton
Charles Gordone
Crazy Moe (voice)
Michael Brandon
(voice)
Morton Lewis
(voice)
Bill Striglos
(voice)
Jay Lawrence
(voice)
Lee Weaver
(voice)
Phyllis Thompson
(voice)
Kim Hamilton
(voice)
Carol Graham
(voice)
Candy Candido
The Mafia Messenger (voice)
Helene Winston
(voice)
William Keene
(voice)
Peter Hobbs
Jerry (voice)
John Bleifer
(voice)
Ralph Bakshi
Various Characters (voice) (uncredited)
Jimmy Bates
Snowflake (voice)
Walt Gorney
Bum (uncredited)
Heavy Traffic Reviews
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
A zesty abstract-jazz riff of a film.
New York Times
Roger Greenspun
A cruel, funny, heartbreaking love note to a city kept alive by its freaks, and always, always dying.
The Dissolve
Keith Phipps
It's a downbeat, dark fantasia of urban life from a filmmaker trying to understand the darkness of the moment before it slipped away.
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
One of Bakshi's most brazen and bizarrely entertaining.
Apollo Guide
Ed Gonzalez
Ralph Bakshi's cartoon Heavy Traffic ferociously mixes in live-action elements, tracing the schizophrenic journey of a struggling cartoonist through a crippling 70s New York City.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
...deliriously perverted...
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
A frenetic, over-the-top combination of live action and crude animation that explores the seedy world of New York's Lower East Side in the early 1970s.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
Heavy Traffic not only has an authentic tenement toughness but the rough feeling of unassimilated autobiography, of experiences and fantasies still keenly felt.
Variety
Variety Staff
There's something to offend everyone in this melange of crudely conceived, amateurishly animated stuff.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
Bakshi manages to offend nearly everyone from transvestites to mafiosi; but the comic distancing achieved by his army of animators manages to bring off a most difficult kind of humor: the humor of pain and despair.
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
Heavy Traffic may be a bit dated in terms of its distinct '70s tone, but that doesn't make it any less fascinating. If you're a fan of the animation genre, this certainly qualifies as essential viewing.
TV Guide
Filled with autobiographical resonance and razor-edged humor, this is a cynical portrait of one young man's coming of age.
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