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Heavy Traffic

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

1973 · NC-17 · 1h 17m

Directed by Ralph Bakshi

6.5

TMDB audience score
90 votes, out of 10

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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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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)