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Heavy Traffic

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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Box Office

Budget: $950,000
Revenue: $1,500,000
ROI: +57.9%

Verdict: Break Even

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Directors

> Ralph Bakshi (Director)
> Gregg Heschong (Director of Photography)
> Ted C. Bemiller (Director of Photography)

Writers

> Ralph Bakshi (Screenplay)