Little Murders Page #3

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
Actors: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
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PG
Year:
1971
110 min
1,193 Views

- [Chuckles]

- I trust you.

Oh, Alfred, do you really?

- I nearly trust you.

- "Nearly"?

I nearly do.

I really nearly do.

Oh, Alfred!

[Alfred's Voice]

I really nearly trust you!

I nearly... I nearly really...

Patsy, I really, nearly trust you.

[Patsy's Voice]

Oh, Alfred!

- Listen, we don't have to if you don't want to.

- [Muzak]

- No, I want to.

- Are you sure you want to?

No, I think I want to.

Oh.

Oh.

[Phone Ringing]

[Heavy Breathing On Phone]

You're not smiling.

I'll do the kitchen over

in butcher board.

I can get seconds on dishes

in the Village.

Sheets and towels,

Macy's or Bloomingdale's.

A dining room table,

chairs, dressers, a sofa...

we'll go to auctions

over the weekend.

Broadlooms I can pick up

cheap at a wholesaler's.

Oh, bring your photofloods over

from the studio until I find lamps.

I'll have a carpenter in on Monday

to put up a work area, a darkroom...

and you'll need your own closet.

A king-size bed, Sloane's will deliver

in 10 days. In two weeks we'll get married.

Oh, Alfred, I'm so happy.

[Humming]

- I'll bet he's a fag.

- He'll be a fine boy.

I know it in my bones.

What the hell is

the air conditioner on for?

- It's 50 outside.

- It drowns out the traffic.

Well, it's all right

when we don't have guests.

Want people to think we're crazy?

- [Makes Kiss Sound]

- Carol, you're not gonna get that poor boy drunk.

That poor boy

wants to marry my Patsy.

And don't call me Carol.

I hate that name.

I told you never to

call me that name.

You deliberately do that to annoy me.

Call me dear!

- You're gonna love them.

- [Sighs]

- It's not my kind of situation.

- Shh.

I can't stand families.

Now, be good.

- I really want to go home.

- Shh!

I really hate families.

What was the name of that interior decorator

she went to Europe with?

- Howard. He was delicate.

- Swish.

And that actor... the one she went

camping up in Maine with.

Roger. He was very muscular.

Swish. And the musician and

the stockbroker and theJewish novelist.

Oh, they're not like that.

Swish, swish, swish, swish.

I can spot them a mile away.

She draws them like flies.

She's got too much stuff.

Too much stuff.

You wait. You'll see.

This new one, what's his name?

- [Man] Alfred.

- A swish name if I ever heard one.

Are you reading again?

Lesbians of Venus.

Is this what I spent 10,000 a year

on graduate school for?

- Get dressed.

- You lost my place!

- [Doorbell Rings]

- Ooh!

- Patsy, Patsy, Patsy, Patsy.

- Patsy.

- Patsy.

- Oh, my baby girl.

- Oh, Mama!

- [Carol Yelling]

Patsy, Patsy, Patsy!

- You look wonderful.

- Patsy!

- Oh, my daddy! Oh!

- [Yelling]

[Chattering Excitedly]

[Carol Laughing]

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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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