Little Murders

"Funny in a new and frightening way!"

Feb 9 1971 PG 1h 48m
Comedy

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Plot

An idealistic girl, Patsy Newquist, saves a young apathetic photographer, Alfred Chamberlain, from a gang of hooligans. She falls for him, but he turns out to be a nihilist. They go out anyway. All this happens against the background of random shootings in NYC (at the time the play the movie is based on was written, the city was going broke). Her family accept him, but when she tries to change him and get him to find meaning in life, things go horribly wrong in a cruel twist of fate.

Written by

Jules Feiffer

Directed by

Alan Arkin

Cast

Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination

Trailers
Little Murders (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
Scores
# of Votes
4,128
Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA