Heavy Traffic
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.
Cast
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)
Crew
DirectorRalph Bakshi
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Details
Release DateAugust 8, 1973
Budget$950,000
Revenue$1,500,000
LanguagesEnglish, Italian, Yiddish
StudiosSteve Krantz Productions, Cine Camera, American International Pictures
