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.
Writing
Jules Feiffer's savage, stage-to-screen dialogue.
Acting
Elliott Gould's deadbeat nihilism is pitch-perfect.
Direction
Arkin's only feature—chaotic, personal, unhinged.
Director
Alan Arkin
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