Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic

Animation · 1973 · 1h 17m

Movie

6.5/10 · TMDB

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

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 & crew

Joseph KaufmannMichael Corleone
Beverly Hope AtkinsonCarole
Frank De KovaAngelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
Terry HavenIda Corleone (voice)
Mary Dean LauriaMolly (voice)
Jacqueline MillsRosalyn Schecter (voice)
Lillian AdamsRosa (voice)
Jamie FarrArcade Owner
Robert Easton
Charles GordoneCrazy Moe (voice)
Michael Brandon(voice)
Morton Lewis(voice)
Bill Striglos(voice)
Jay Lawrence(voice)
Lee Weaver(voice)

Information

Release date
8 August 1973
Director
Ralph Bakshi
Genres
Animation, Comedy, Drama
Runtime
1h 17m
Country of origin
United States

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