Heavy Traffic (1973)

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

Movie · Animation, Comedy, Drama · 1h 17m · Rated 6.5/10 on TMDB · Released August 8, 1973

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.

Directed by Ralph Bakshi

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)

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