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Alfred Chamberlain
Patsy Newquist
Mr. Newquist
Mrs. Newquist
Kenny Newquist
Mr. Chamberlain
Critic Reviews for Little Murders
All Critics (12) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (4)
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Often exceedingly funny.
June 2, 2020 | Full Review… -
Ruthlessly funny.
June 2, 2020 | Full Review… -
This film, with brilliant screenplay by Feiffer and matching direction by Alan Arkin and a cast that almost outshines them both, is the quintessential comment on our human and/or family relationships, our way of coping with the horrors around us.
October 1, 2019 | Full Review… -
Given our current culture of random violence, Little Murders feels eerily topical.
August 16, 2017 | Full Review… -
Alan Arkin's Little Murders is a very New York kind of movie, paranoid, masochistic and nervous. It left me with a cold knot in my stomach, a vague fear that something was gaining on me.
October 23, 2004 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review… -
The movie tells no story. It is almost an unconnected series of sketches, some funny, others dull, all uneven.
April 5, 2019 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Little Murders
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May 24, 2016Comedy doesn't come much blacker than this adaptation of a Jules Feiffer play. Elliott Gould is a listless photographer who's so apathetic that he daydreams while being mugged. He meets an energetic optimist (Marcia Rodd, strangely forgotten today) who somehow falls in love with him and is determined to inject him with some pep. But in a city of daily escalating violence, it's hard for anyone to stay smiling for long. The characterizations are arch and hyperrealistic, and the action sustains an aggressively satirical edge. Vincent Gardenia is stellar in his typical role as a protective father with a temper, while Donald Sutherland (as a hippie preacher) and Lou Jacobi (as a God-fearing judge) add dazzling cameos and virtually steal the movie. First-time director Alan Arkin also has a scene as a frazzled detective, but sails far, far over the top.Eric B Super Reviewer
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Jul 31, 2012Such was the depth of quality in seventies cinema that many movies of the era have been unfairly forgotten. While stars like De Niro, Pacino and Hoffmann are still lauded it's easy to forget how great Elliot Gould, Alan Arkin and Donald Sutherland were. All three feature in Arkin's directorial debut, a surreal black comedy which originally had Godard attached. Gould is great as a photographer who has lost the ability to feel and wanders through life with detachment. Marcia Rodd is the young woman obsessed with waking him from his emotional coma. Watch for Sutherland's hilarious cameo as the preacher of the "First Existential" church.The Movie W Super Reviewer
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Sep 05, 2010This is a brilliant black comedy based on a great off Broadway play. The story is fantastic and comments on city life and the postmodern world in an outrageous way. I love this movie, and I recommend it.Aj V Super Reviewer
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Jun 20, 2009Entertaining. Sarcastic. Unpredictable. Hilarious.Rhady N Super Reviewer
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