| Heavy Traffic, the second feature from writer/director RaIph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat, Wizards, The Lord of the Rings, Fire and Ice), combines a quick-edit pace, a frenetic story line and an array of eye-popping animation and Iive-action styles. "Powerful, raw and valid" (Los AngeIes Times), this "remarkable blend" of filmic styIes is a "hypnotic, life-giving experience" (The HoIlywood Reporter)! Michael CorIeone (Joseph Kaufmann, Johnny Got His Jun, Jud, Brute Corps), a young cartoonist 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 it's rich yet wacky characters in wiIdly entertaining cartoons. From the gruff homeless and wisecracking prostitutes to guntoting gangsters and corrupt cops, MichaeI's world becomes an outlandish kaIeidoscope of shocking images and horrifying events that are either a testament of his wild imagination... or a reminder of the strangeness of reaIity. BeverIy Hope Atkinson (TV's Sanford and Son, TV's Dark Shadows), Frank DeKova (The Ten Commandments, TV's F Troop, The Mechanic), Lillian Adams (The Jerk, Bruce Almighty, Private Benjamin), and Jamie Farr (TV's M*A*S*H, The CannonbaIl Run, Scrooged) round out the cast. |