Little Murders

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Little Murders
Directed by	Alan Arkin
Produced by	Jack Brodsky
Written by	Jules Feiffer
Starring	Elliott Gould Marcia Rodd Vincent Gardenia Doris Roberts
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	February 9, 1971
Running time	110 minutes
Language	English
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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.