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Heavy Traffic
“More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!”
6.5 / 10• 1973• 1h 17m•NC-17• English
AnimationComedyDrama
Storyline
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 & Crew
JK
Joseph Kaufmann
Michael Corleone
Lead
Beverly Hope Atkinson
Carole
Frank De Kova
Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
TH
Terry Haven
Ida Corleone (voice)
Mary Dean Lauria
Molly (voice)
JM
Jacqueline Mills
Rosalyn Schecter (voice)
LA
Lillian Adams
Rosa (voice)
Jamie Farr
Arcade Owner
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Ralph Bakshi's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Heavy Traffic is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
