Heavy Traffic
1973, Film, 77 min, Animation, Comedy, Crime, English, United States, MoviePedia score 65
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
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 DeKova as Angelo "Angie" Corleone
- Terri Haven as Ida Corleone
- Mary Dean Lauria as Molly
- Jacqueline Mills as Rosalyn Schecter
- Lillian Adams as Rosa
- Jamie Farr as Arcade Owner
- Robert Easton
- Charles Gordone as Crazy Moe
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