Description: Heavy Traffic 1973 Animated Cult Classic DVD from 2000 Complete with full color insert. Disc has a few very small, light marks. Plays perfectly and near to like new condition. Animator Ralph Bakshi's frenzied glimpse into the sleazy 1970s New York of pimps, drag queens, and Times Square perversity, this hallucinatory romp centers on Michael (Joseph Kaufman), an underground cartoonist who lives with his shrill Jewish mother and mobster Italian father, and escapes the urban squalor via his art. The stage is set for a crescendo of explosive violence when Michael gets romantically involved with sassy black bartender Carole (Beverly Hope Atkinson), arousing his father's racist fury as well as the jealousy of Shorty, Carole's violent, legless barfly devotee. Bakshi's second film remains one of his boldest and most brilliant, thanks to its uncompromisingly bleak vision, over-the-top violence, satirically exaggerated racial stereotypes, and frank sexuality. But beyond all the wildness beats a real heart and piercing honesty. Bakshi's technique of integrating live action and old films with different styles of animation works perfectly in this loosely autobiographical series of hallucinatory vignettes. This hilarious, horrifying, bittersweet portrait of urban alienation and artistic struggle still resonates with a raw power that has lost none of its force in the passing years.
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Location: Clyde, North Carolina
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Video Format: NTSC
Music Artist: Ed Bogas, Ray Shanklin
Case Type: Tall/DVD Case
Subtitle Language: French, Spanish
Sub-Genre: Dark Humor, Animated
Cinematic Movement: Art/Indie Film, Arthouse/Independent, Cult
Franchise: Ralph Bakshi
Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
Edition: Standard Edition
Type: Movie
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Language: American English, English
Actor: Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank Dekova, Joseph Kaufmann
Features: Trailer
Season: None
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Rating: R
Movie/TV Title: Heavy Traffic
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Format: DVD
Release Year: 2000
Genre: Comedy