Heavy Traffic
1973
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
- Ralph Bakshi
- 1h 17m
- August 8, 1973 · United States of America
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 8, 1973
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Yiddish, Italian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Michael Brandon,Joseph Kaufmann,Mary Dean Lauria,Lee Weaver,Beverly Hope Atkinson,John Bleifer,Peter Hobbs,Frank De Kova,Helene Winston,Candy Candidoand 16 more
- Director
- Ralph Bakshi
- Writer
- Ralph Bakshi
- Producer
- Samuel Z. Arkoff,Steve Krantz
- Cinematography
- Ted C. Bemiller,Gregg Heschong
- Music
- Ed Bogas,Ray Shanklin
- Budget
- $950,000
- Revenue
- $1,500,000
- IMDb
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