Little Murders Page #2

Synopsis: A girl brings home her latest boyfriend to meet her parents. This is done against the background of random shootings that had just begun in NYC at the time the play was written. How the family's failings are magnified by the social confusion of the times is the crux of the plot.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Alan Arkin
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
PG
Year:
1971
110 min
1,187 Views


Hello there.

Hello there.

Testing. One, two, three. Testing.

Talk to me. Sing. Do something.

- [Snores]

- [Chuckles]

- You want to drive for a while?

- I hate cars.

You don't have to do anything

you don't want to do.

- Except have fun.

- You'll get used to it.

[Man Singing In Spanish]

[Continues]

Okay.

[Continues]

[Continues]

What do you mean you don't dance?

You dance very well.

I didn't know this was dancing.

Admit it. You're having fun.

You're a terrific girl, Patsy.

I don't know if you know that.

I think you were fantastic...

on the tennis court this afternoon.

Admit it. You're having fun.

You're having the time of your life.

- Tonight.

- Well, that's something.

This must be the first time in your life

you're having the time of your life.

[Sighs]

- Why not?

- I don't feel like it.

Well, I didn't mean to

force myself on you.

You're a terrific girl.

I really mean that.

I'll tell you when I feel like it.

[Continues]

Do you know how I wake up every morning

of my life? With a smile on my face.

And for the rest of the day I come up

against an unending series of...

of challenges to wipe

that smile off my face.

The breather calls. Ex-boyfriends

call to tell me they're getting married.

Someone tries to break into the

apartment while I'm getting dressed.

There's a drunk asleep

in the elevator.

Three minutes after I'm out

in the street, my camel coat turns brown.

The subway stalls. A man standing next

to me presses his body against mine.

The up elevator jams.

Rumors start buzzing around the office

that we're about to be automated.

The down elevator jams.

The air on Lexington Avenue is... is purple.

And all the taxis are off duty.

A man on the bus tries to pick me up.

Another man follows me home.

I walk in the door, and the breather's

on the phone.

Isn't that enough to wipe the smile

off anybody's face?

Well, it doesn't wipe it off mine.

Because for every bad thing,

there are two... No, four good things.

There are... There are friends

and a wonderful job...

and tennis,

traveling and skiing...

staying up all night

to watch the sun rise...

flying your own airplane,

horseback riding.

Alfred, I think

I'm falling in love with you.

I said, " I think

I'm falling in love with you."

Alfred, are you

falling in love with me?

I don't know what love is!

- Do you think I'm aggressive?

- I don't mind.

- Do you think I'm too aggressive?

- I like it.

Somebody has to be aggressive.

- Do you like me?

- I think you're terrific.

- Are you attracted to me?

- Come on, Patsy.

Do you want to

make love to me?

- Hey, you're pretty aggressive.

- [Groans]

Your life is in my hands.

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Jules Feiffer

Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor.When Feiffer was 17 (in the mid-1940s) he became assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner. There he helped Eisner write and illustrate his comic strips, including The Spirit. He then became a staff cartoonist at The Village Voice beginning in 1956, where he produced the weekly comic strip titled Feiffer until 1997. His cartoons became nationally syndicated in 1959 and then appeared regularly in publications including the Los Angeles Times, the London Observer, The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and The Nation. In 1997 he created the first op-ed page comic strip for the New York Times, which ran monthly until 2000. He has written more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. His first of many collections of satirical cartoons, Sick, Sick, Sick, was published in 1958, and his first novel, Harry, the Rat With Women, in 1963. He wrote The Great Comic Book Heroes in 1965: the first history of the comic-book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s and a tribute to their creators. In 1979 Feiffer created his first graphic novel, Tantrum. By 1993 he began writing and illustrating books aimed at young readers, with several of them winning awards. Feiffer began writing for the theater and film in 1961, with plays including Little Murders (1967), Feiffer's People (1969), and Knock Knock (1976). He wrote the screenplay for Carnal Knowledge (1971), directed by Mike Nichols, and Popeye (1980), directed by Robert Altman. Besides writing, he is currently an instructor with the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. more…

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