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Heavy Traffic

1973 · 1h 17m · Animation, Comedy, Drama

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.

Cast

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

Details

Director

Ralph Bakshi

Released

August 8, 1973

Runtime

1h 17m

Genres

Animation, Comedy, Drama

Studio

Steve Krantz Productions, Cine Camera and American International Pictures

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.5 / 10 from 90 votes