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Plot Summary
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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89%- Reviews Counted: 18
- Fresh: 16
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 6.8/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A cruel, funny, heartbreaking love note to a city kept alive by its freaks, and always, always dying.
Fresh: Heavy Traffic not only has an authentic tenement toughness but the rough feeling of unassimilated autobiography, of experiences and fantasies still keenly felt.
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: ...deliriously perverted...
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- $19.99
- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 1973
- © 1973 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.