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Heavy Traffic (1973)
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
“More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!”
Animation, Comedy, Drama · 1h 17m
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
Beverly Hope Atkinson
Carole
Frank De Kova
Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
Mary Dean Lauria
Molly (voice)
Jamie Farr
Arcade Owner
Robert Easton
Charles Gordone
Crazy Moe (voice)
Michael Brandon
(voice)
Crew
- Director
- Ralph Bakshi
- Screenplay
- Ralph Bakshi
- Director of Photography
- Ted C. Bemiller, Gregg Heschong
- Original Music Composer
- Ed Bogas, Ray Shanklin
- Editor
- Donald W. Ernst
- Producer
- Samuel Z. Arkoff, Steve Krantz
Details
- Release date
- 1973-08-08
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Italian, Yiddish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Steve Krantz Productions, Cine Camera, American International Pictures
- Budget
- $950,000
- Box office
- $1,500,000