Heavy Traffic
“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.
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Cast
26 people
Joseph Kaufmann
Michael Corleone
Also in
Brute Corps
Jud
Beverly Hope Atkinson
Carole
Also in
UFOria
Hustling
Frank De Kova
Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
Known for
The Ten Commandments
The Mechanic
Terry Haven
Ida Corleone (voice)
Also in
Hey Good Lookin'
Auditions
Mary Dean Lauria
Molly (voice)
Also in
Hey Good Lookin'
Jacqueline Mills
Rosalyn Schecter (voice)
Lillian Adams
Rosa (voice)
Known for
Bruce Almighty
The Sweetest Thing
Jamie Farr
Arcade Owner
Known for
M*A*S*H
Cannonball Run II
Robert Easton
Known for
Working Girl
The Giant Spider Invasion
Charles Gordone
Crazy Moe (voice)
Known for
Angel Heart
Coonskin
Michael Brandon
(voice)
Known for
Captain America: The First Avenger
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Morton Lewis
(voice)
Also in
Gathering of Evil
Pistole
Ralph Bakshi Director · Ed Bogas Composer Ray Shanklin Composer
Worldwide gross $1.5M · Budget $950K · United States release August 8, 1973
Box office
Budget
$950,000
Worldwide gross
$1,500,000
Gross vs. budget
1.6×
Production
Steve Krantz Productions
Production
Cine Camera
Production
American International Pictures
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Italian · Yiddish
Release dates
Sweden · August 8, 1973
TV
United States · August 8, 1973
Theatrical
Germany
March 7, 1974 · Theatrical
Japan
April 20, 1974 · Theatrical
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