Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic (1973)

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

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.

Date of release
1973-08-08
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (90)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Animation, Comedy, Drama
Director
Ralph Bakshi

Casting

  • Joseph Kaufmann — Michael Corleone
  • Beverly Hope Atkinson — Carole
  • Frank De Kova — Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
  • Terry Haven — Ida Corleone (voice)
  • Mary Dean Lauria — Molly (voice)
  • Jacqueline Mills — Rosalyn Schecter (voice)
  • Lillian Adams — Rosa (voice)
  • Jamie Farr — Arcade Owner
  • Robert Easton
  • Charles Gordone — Crazy Moe (voice)
  • Michael Brandon — (voice)
  • Morton Lewis — (voice)

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