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| Overall Rating:   3.38 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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"Dazzling cinematic treatment! Revolutionary combination of live-action andianimation!" -Leonard Maltin
"Heavy images, crazy violence, insanity verging on insecurity...and brilliance" (Films & Filming)! Heavy Traffic, the second feature from writer/director 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 valid" (Los Angeles Times), this "remarkable blend" of filmic styles is a "hypnotic, life-giving experience" (The Hollywood Reporter)!
Michael, a young artist who lives with 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 wild imagination...or a reminder of the strangeness of reality.
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| Original Theatrical Trailer
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| | Standard 1.33:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
| Subtitles:
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| Studio: MGM / UA
Production Year: 1973
Release Date: 9/5/2000
Length: 76 mins
Rating: NR
Chapters: 16
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: 1000979
UPC Code: 027616852854
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Overall Rating: 3.38 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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Go play in traffic! - 3 out of 5 (9/4/2000)
I remember seeing "Heavy Traffic" for the first time in a bar inToronto. It was the movie that was showing on all of the screens. I waswith a crew of five men and we couldn't figure out what the movie was.We asked the people in the bar and they didn't know either.
Now it is twelve years later and I finally figured out what the film's name was. Now, can anybody figure why we were all watching the television instead of what we were supposed to be watching in that club?
Anyways, "Heavy Traf
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More of Ralph Bakshi's genius comes to DVD! - 3.75 out of 5 (2/10/2001)
In the early 1970's, Ralph Bakshi was the most talented animator working in movies. His revolutionary Rotoscope technique was far beyond anything Disney had done, even by today's standards. And these innovations allowed Bakshi to tell his dark, harrowing stories for grownups more effectively.
Heavy Traffic is Bakshi's follow-up to Fritz The Cat, and like Fritz, it was rated X at the time of its release. The story is much darker and the satire is pure gallows humor. Michael, a talented cartoon
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