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Heavy Traffic (1973)

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

  • Aug 8, 1973
  • 1h 17m
  • NC-17

6.5/10

TMDB user score
90 votes on TMDB

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About This Movie

Heavy Traffic is a 1973 animation and comedy film directed by Ralph Bakshi. Its leading cast includes Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson and Frank De Kova. It runs for 1 hour 17 minutes.

Synopsis

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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Before You Pick

Time needed
1 hour 17 minutes
Age rating (US)
NC-17
Language
English
Audience signal
6.5/10 from 90 TMDB votes

Trailer

Heavy Traffic (1973 Theatrical Trailer) · plays from YouTube

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Cast

  • Joseph Kaufmann Michael Corleone
  • Beverly Hope Atkinson Carole
  • Frank De Kova Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
  • Terry Haven Ida Corleone (voice)
  • Mary Dean Lauria Molly (voice)
  • Jacqueline Mills Rosalyn Schecter (voice)
  • Lillian Adams Rosa (voice)
  • Jamie Farr Arcade Owner
  • Robert Easton
  • Charles Gordone Crazy Moe (voice)
  • Michael Brandon (voice)
  • Morton Lewis (voice)
  • Bill Striglos (voice)
  • Jay Lawrence (voice)
  • Lee Weaver (voice)
  • Phyllis Thompson (voice)
  • Kim Hamilton (voice)
  • Carol Graham (voice)

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