Heavy Traffic
“More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!”
Cast
Joseph Kaufmann 
Beverly Hope Atkinson 
Frank DeKova Terri Haven Mary Dean Lauria Jacqueline Mills
Credits
Written by: 
Ralph Bakshi
Plot
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…
Sinekatalog’s take
Ralph Bakshi's film is raw, crude and vivid, a gritty urban cartoon for adults.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.5 / 10 (4,266 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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