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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX)
EAN: 9780792846819
Feature: 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
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 0792846818
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: MGM
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageItalianOriginal LanguageYiddishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: MGM
MPN: 1000979
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 05, 2000
Running Time: 76 minutes
Studio: MGM
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Features:- 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
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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.System Requirements:Directed By: Ralph Bakshi Running Time: 76 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM Rating: NR UPC: 027616852854 Manufacturer No: 1000979
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Heavy Traffic is writer-director Ralph Bakshi's follow-up to Fritz the Cat, so if you're looking for a little something to watch with the kids, you might want to search elsewhere. It's an odd little movie, one that seems to both condemn and celebrate depravity at the same time. The hero is Michael, an artist who still lives with his battling parents. Michael is far too sensitive for the cruel city, though he sure seems to draw an awful lot of pictures of it. Michael hooks up with cool bartender Carole and the two of them set off to... well, they plan to do something. More engaging than the story are Bakshi's visual techniques, which include blending animated and live-action sequences and layering old film clips into cartoon backgrounds. Though interesting as a piece of animation, Heavy Traffic is difficult to recommend. There is a running thread of misogyny that makes the film off-putting, to say the least. Yes, all of the characters are unpleasant and yes, most of the violence is over-the-top enough to make a case for it being comic. It is the constant, casual misogyny that's unsettling--at one point Michael backhands Carole across the face and everyone, including Carole, seems to be fine with that. Keep an ear out for Jamie Farr and watch it for the animation, not the plot. --Ali Davis
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Rating:  -
"Heavy Traffic" is a masterpiece of animation, despite the flaws it has. It dares to tackle with more complex human emotions and issues, far more than had ever been done since the Golden Age of Animation. The story deals with the trials and tribulations of young Michael Corleone (yes, that's his name), a 22 year-old Half-jewish, Half-Italian aspiring cartoonist. He lives with his parents, Angelo and Ida Corleone, whose relationship make Al and Peg Bundy look like Ozzie and Harriet. The film also ... Read More
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I wanted to get a sample of Bakshi's earlier work. A legitimate copy of Coonskin wasn't available for cheap and I didn't want to get anything X-rated, so Heavy Traffic was the way to go. I felt that Bakshi's sophomoric attempt at animation would be a better shot, anyway.
The plot revolves around Michael Corleone, a 22-year old living with his Catholic, Italian father who drinks, fornicates like crazy and has mafia connections and his Jewish mother who is always trying to kill her husband ... Read More
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the animation is all american which I like and is harder to find theses days. the story and atmosphere sync in perfect harmony as the story progresses.
the film is unique in its live action/animation genre which is rarely exercised in films, in this case it was done sucessfully.
what jeers I do have for this movie is sometimes; the street punk ghetto urban style attitude it carries sometimes gets overuseds and becomes downright silly, tho it rarely happens.
New ... Read More
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I saw Heavy Traffic in a sale promo from Amazon. It was a 2 for $10 sale and I ordered six pairs. I checked each one to be sure what I was ordering. The version of Heavy Traffic shown on Amazon was the 77 minute X-rated version. What I received was the 76 minute R-rated version. I wanted the X-rated version only as a collection item so the R version was useless to me.
I used the automated refund/replace Amazon process and was promptly given a return label. I hadn't even gotten that ... Read More
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After the success of "Fritz the Cat", celebrated animation director Ralph Bakshi turned his adult-oriented animation style to something a bit more personal with 1973's "Heavy Traffic". The film follows Michael Corleone, a young, underachieving cartoonist living with his violently battling parents in a rough part of the city. When he is at home, he must put up with his Italian mob-involved father and his coddling Jewish mother literally attempting to kill each other, so he spends a lot of time wandering ... Read More
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