Heavy Traffic
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
1973 | 76m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Ralph Bakshi |
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| Writer: | Ralph Bakshi |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 08, 1973 |
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| Director: | Ralph Bakshi |
| Writer: | Ralph Bakshi |
| Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Drama |
| Keywords | sexual frustration, virgin, urban life, surrealism, interracial relationship, pinball, marijuana, sexual attraction, adult animation |
| Production Companies | Steve Krantz Productions, American International Pictures, Cine Camera |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $1,500,000
Budget: $950,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 04, 2026 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Candy Candido | The Mafia Messenger (voice) |
| Helene Winston | (voice) |
| William Keene | (voice) |
| Peter Hobbs | Jerry (voice) |
| John Bleifer | (voice) |
| Ralph Bakshi | Various Characters (voice) (uncredited) |
| Jimmy Bates | Snowflake (voice) |
| Walt Gorney | Bum (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ralph Bakshi | Screenplay, Director |
| Art Vitello | Animation |
| Donald W. Ernst | Editor |
| Ted C. Bemiller | Cinematography, Director of Photography |
| Milton Gray | Animation |
| Gregg Heschong | Cinematography, Director of Photography |
| Ed Bogas | Original Music Composer |
| Ray Shanklin | Original Music Composer |
| Dan Perri | Title Designer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Steve Krantz | Producer |
| Samuel Z. Arkoff | Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 8 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 7 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| 2025 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
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