Heavy Traffic (1973) — animation, comedy, drama film. Directed by Ralph Bakshi. Starring Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank De Kova, Terry Haven. This page maps 8 characters and 7 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A young cartoonist's surreal fantasies as an escape from his dysfunctional family life
Animation, Comedy, Drama · 6.5/10 · 77 min · 1973
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.
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