Little Murders

1971

Action / Comedy / Crime

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 81% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 4121 4.1K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Alan Arkin Photo
Alan Arkin

Top cast

Marcia Rodd Photo
Marcia Rodd as Patsy Newquist
John Randolph Photo
John Randolph as Mr. Chamberlain
Doris Roberts Photo
Doris Roberts as Mrs. Chamberlain
Alan Arkin Photo
Alan Arkin as Lieutenant Practice
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889.28 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 1
1.7 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TheTwistedLiver 7 / 10

Sutherland, Gould and and Arkin. Need I say more?

I asked the clerk at my local video store to suggest a comedy from the 70's on VHS as my DVD player was broken. He recommended Little Murders and got a glazed over look in his eye and an idiots smile on his face, obviously reminiscing over a scene in the film. That was enough for me to want to rent it, and I'm glad I did. The acting in this film is outstanding, the highlight for me was Alan Arkin playing a Dr. Strangelove esquire police officer and of course the scene with Donald Sutherland as the minister. The film holds up remarkably well for having been filmed over 35 years ago, it must have been ahead of it's time when it came out. Aside from a few slang terms that were definitely from a by gone era, the film could easily take place today. All in all worth the effort if for nothing else than an outstanding cast of Arkin, Sutherland and Gould. Did it get any better than that acting wise in the 1970?
Reviewed by S_Craig_Zahler 8 / 10

Hilarious...but not a comedy...

Exact rating: 8.25The pulse of this movie is subversive and menacing, and even though there are many, many great laughs, I think the classification of it as a comedy is wrong. It never feels like a comedy. In terms of tone, it is something like the pilot for Twin Peaks and a Mamet play and an Odets play, but with some strange off off off off Broadway claustrophobia and seventies nihilistic horror. It displays a collapsed and paranoid urban environment in which people are combative with words and isolated by them.I feel it should be essential viewing for any writer, as it contains four of the best-- if not the actual four best-- monologues I've ever heard in a movie. Arkin and Sutherland have amazing monologues that are only marginally upstaged by those given by Gould and Jacobi.I laughed many, many times (as did many people in the sold out screening I attended), but when it ended, the haunting and thoughtful core of the movie lingered more than did the comedy.A rich and allegorical piece that deserves serious study and accolades.(I saw a 35mm print of the movie at Film Forum, N.Y.)
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