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Heavy Traffic

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

  • Movie
  • 1973
  • NC-17
  • 1h 17m

Directed by Ralph Bakshi

6.5

TMDB audience rating
6.5 out of 10 from 90 votes

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Overview

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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Cast and crew

  • Joseph KaufmannMichael Corleone

  • Beverly Hope Atkinson

    Beverly Hope AtkinsonCarole

  • Frank De Kova

    Frank De KovaAngelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)

  • Terry HavenIda Corleone (voice)

  • Mary Dean Lauria

    Mary Dean LauriaMolly (voice)

  • Jacqueline MillsRosalyn Schecter (voice)

  • Lillian AdamsRosa (voice)

  • Jamie Farr

    Jamie FarrArcade Owner

  • Robert Easton

    Robert Easton

  • Charles Gordone

    Charles GordoneCrazy Moe (voice)

  • Michael Brandon

    Michael Brandon(voice)

  • Morton Lewis(voice)

  • Bill Striglos(voice)

  • Jay Lawrence(voice)

  • Lee Weaver

    Lee Weaver(voice)

  • Phyllis Thompson(voice)

  • Kim Hamilton

    Kim Hamilton(voice)

  • Carol Graham(voice)

Director
Ralph Bakshi
Writer
Ralph Bakshi
Music
Ray Shanklin and Ed Bogas
Cinematography
Gregg Heschong and Ted C. Bemiller