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Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

19736.41h 16m

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
Written by Ralph Bakshi
Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, Steve Krantz
Box OfficeBudget: $950KRevenue: $1.5M

Top Cast

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Joseph Kaufmann

Michael Corleone

Beverly Hope Atkinson

Beverly Hope Atkinson

Carole

Frank De Kova

Frank De Kova

Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)

T

Terry Haven

Ida Corleone (voice)

Mary Dean Lauria

Mary Dean Lauria

Molly (voice)

J

Jacqueline Mills

Rosalyn Schecter (voice)

L

Lillian Adams

Rosa (voice)

Jamie Farr

Jamie Farr

Arcade Owner

Robert Easton

Robert Easton

Charles Gordone

Charles Gordone

Crazy Moe (voice)

Themes & Keywords

virginsexual frustrationsurrealismurban lifemarijuanainterracial relationshippinballsexual attractionadult animation

About Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic is a animation, comedy, drama film released in 1973 exploring themes of virgin, sexual frustration, surrealism, urban life, marijuana, interracial relationship. Directed by Ralph Bakshi, it stars Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank De Kova. 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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