Little Murders (1971)
Directed by Alan Arkin
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.
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What critics compared Little Murders to
Paul Mazursky, Bob Rafelson and Elaine May come to mind -- as does one scene in particular, with Elliott Gould's parents in Jules Feiffer's more cartoonishly stylized "Little Murders," unable to express a single personal thought or feeling unless it's been codified and freeze-dried in quotation marks by some famous author.
…evoking completely out-of-style films of the 1970’s like Little Murders or Freebie and the Bean…
The film doesn't say that urban living is too much to bear (as do some '70s films, like Little Murders or Taxi Driver), and it's not a treatise on the necessity of family or social immersion.