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About
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.
Theatrical
Aug 8, 1973
Box Office
$1.5M
Budget
$950K
Return
1.6x
DVD / Blu-ray
Sep 5, 2000
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Steve Krantz Productions, Cine Camera, American International Pictures
Where to Watch
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Cast
Full credits →J
Joseph Kaufmann
Michael Corleone
B
Beverly Hope Atkinson
Carole
F
Frank De Kova
Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
T
Terry Haven
Ida Corleone (voice)
L
Lillian Adams
Rosa (voice)
J
Jamie Farr
Arcade Owner
R
Robert Easton
C
Charles Gordone
Crazy Moe (voice)
M
Michael Brandon
(voice)
M
Morton Lewis
(voice)
B
Bill Striglos
(voice)
J
Jay Lawrence
(voice)
L
Lee Weaver
(voice)
P
Phyllis Thompson
(voice)
K
Kim Hamilton
(voice)
C
Candy Candido
The Mafia Messenger (voice)
H
Helene Winston
(voice)
W
William Keene
(voice)
P
Peter Hobbs
Jerry (voice)
J
John Bleifer
(voice)
Quotes
See all →Exploring the Complexity of Heavy Traffic
Taglines
It's animated, but it's not a cartoon. It's funny, but it's not a comedy. It's real. It's unreal. It's heavy. Heavy Traffic.
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Spice from the Creators of Fritz the Cat
Taglines
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
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