Heavy Traffic (1973)

08/08/1973 1h 16m

More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!

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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.

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Cast Ages at Release

Frank De Kova

as Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)

Born 03/17/1910

Died 10/15/1981, age

Jamie Farr

as Arcade Owner

Born 07/01/1934, age

Robert Easton

Born 11/23/1930

Died 12/16/2011, age

Candy Candido

as The Mafia Messenger (voice)

Born 12/25/1913

Died 05/19/1999, age

Ralph Bakshi

as Various Characters (voice) (uncredited)

Born 10/29/1938, age