Little Murders

Infobox Film
name = Little Murders


imdb_id = 0067350
writer = Jules Feiffer
starring = Elliott Gould
Marcia Rodd
Vincent Gardenia
Doris Roberts
director = Alan Arkin
producer = Jack Brodsky
distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = February 9, 1971
runtime = 110 minutes
followed_by =
language = English

"Little Murders" is a 1971 black comedy film starring Elliott Gould and Marcia Rodd about a girl (Rodd) who brings home her boyfriend (Gould) to meet her parents amidst a series of random shootings, garbage strikes and electrical outages ravaging the neighborhood and the family's severe dysfunction.

The film originated as a play written by cartoonist Jules Feiffer which he attempted to stage in New York City in 1967 but it lasted only seven performances. He made another attempt, this time at the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Christopher Morahan at the Aldwych Theatre in London, which was much more successful. Feiffer brought the play back to the United States in 1969 where it was performed at the Circle in the Square in New York City with a cast that included Linda Lavin, Vincent Gardenia, Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, and David Steinberg.

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*imdb title|id=0067350|title=Little Murders
* [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19710101/REVIEWS/101010318/1023 Roger Ebert's review]