Funny in a new and frightening way!
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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Comic, bleak, open-ended and character-led.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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Cast
- Elliott GouldAlfred Chamberlain
- Marcia RoddPatsy Newquist
- Vincent GardeniaCarol Newquist
- Elizabeth WilsonMarge Newquist
- Jon KorkesKenny Newquist
- John RandolphMr. Chamberlain
- Doris RobertsMrs. Chamberlain
- Lou JacobiJudge Stern
- Donald SutherlandRev. Dupas
- Alan ArkinLt. Practice
Crew
- Alan ArkinDirector
- Jules FeifferScreenplay
- Gordon WillisDirector of Photography
- Fred KazOriginal Music Composer
- Howard KupermanEditor
- Jack BrodskyProducer
- Elliott GouldProducer
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Pairings
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The Chumscrubber 200565% alikeClose across the board; this one is more contemporary.
M*A*S*H 197065% alikeClose across the board.
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