Heavy Traffic

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

Heavy Traffic — Plot

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.

• Release date
• August 8, 1973
• Runtime
• 77 min
• Genres
• Animation, Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Ralph Bakshi

Heavy Traffic — Cast

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Joseph Kaufmann Michael Corleone Beverly Hope Atkinson Carole Frank De Kova Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)

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Terry Haven Ida Corleone (voice) Mary Dean Lauria Molly (voice)

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Jacqueline Mills Rosalyn Schecter (voice)

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Lillian Adams Rosa (voice) Jamie Farr Arcade Owner