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Jack Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson - born 22 April 1937, in Neptune, New Jersey - occupation: living legend. A 12-time Academy Award nominee, 3-time Oscar-winner, Jacks early career sputtered with more writing than acting, but he did get into useful cahoots with Roger Corman.
Then came Easy Rider and his first Oscar nomination in 1969, followed by another three nods for Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail and Chinatown, before finally winning the statue in 1975 for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Oscar #2 follows in 1983 with Terms Of Endearment, and with films like Prizzi's Honor, Ironweed and The Witches of Eastwick, Nicholson cemented his iconic status.
Somewhere between earning a then record-breaking $7m (increasing to a whopping $60m via percentage profit deal) as The Joker in 1989s Batman, and getting yet another Oscar nomination for his shouty Colonel in A Few Good Men (1992), Jack began simply playing Jack. And has been doing so pretty much ever since.
Academy Award #3 arrived in 1997 for As Good as it Gets, and a nod for About Schmidt in 2002 means that Jack and Michael Caine are the only actors to be Oscar-nominated in five different decades.
Recent years have largely been spent sitting in the front row of the Oscar ceremony wearing dark glasses and grinning like Hollywood royalty. Plus airing his Jack-ness in the odd movie, including a superb swagger through Martin Scorsese's The Departed, chewing all the scenery he can see.
Wise words: "With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and seventy."
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Nicholson's mental patient tops best movie role poll -
20 March 2012
-Jack Nicholson's Oscar-winning turn in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest has been voted the greatest movie performance of all time.-The Hollywood veteran's role as R.P. McMurphy, a criminal faking insanity to serve his jail sentence in a mental hospital, came top in a po
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Nicholson eyes date with Simpson -
30 May 2010
-Actor Jack Nicholson has proved he's still a ladies' man - by asking buxom pop star Jessica Simpson on a date.-
-The Shining star has been linked to a number of actresses and models over the years, including Lara Flynn Boyle, Anjelica Huston and Michelle Phillips, and
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Witherspoon/Nicholson movie delayed -
28 July 2009
-A premature birth has held up production on Reese Witherspoon and Jack Nicholson's new movie.-
-The two stars are currently working on baseball picture How Do You Know but the shoot has been halted after Kathryn Hahn, who plays a pregnant secretary, went into labour du
Jack Nicholson - what members say
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A Wonderful Movie to watch 25 November 2004
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Overrated? 8 October 2004
Jack Nicholson - filmography
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Corman's World
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Quentin Tarantino, Jack Nicholson
Director: Alex Stapleton
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Documentary on the life of legendary B-movie director Roger Corman. Over the course of a career spanning over six decades, Corman has directed and produced numerous films and has developed a reputation as one of the most respected figures in Hollywood. Corman's influence on the last half century of ..read more »
 
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How Do You Know - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd
Director: James L. Brooks
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Romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd. Former athlete Lisa (Witherspoon) meets troubled business executive George (Rudd) at a bad time. While Lisa is facing a difficult transition in her life, feeling past her athletic prime and questioning her current relationship ..read more »
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The Bucket List - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Alfonso Freeman, Sean Hayes, Rob Morrow
Director: Rob Reiner
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Adventure comedy starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Billionaire Edward Cole (Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time ..read more »
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The Departed
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone
Director: Martin Scorsese, Martin Scors
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In South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on organized crime, young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello. While Billy is quickly gaining Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has ..read more »
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Something's Gotta Give
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet, Jon Favreau
Director: Nancy Meyers
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Harry Sanborn is a perennial bachelor who only dates women under the age of thirty. On what was to have been a romantic weekend with his latest infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hamptons beach house, Harry develops chest pains. Marin's mother Erica Barry, a successful, divorced playwright, ..read more »
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Anger Management
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Kurt Fuller, Alan Covert, John Turturro
Director: Peter Segal
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Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson star (with a host of cameos from the likes of Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta and John McEnroe) in this comedy about a man who unwittingly discovers he has a lot of pent-up anger within him. Dave Buznick (Sandler) is ordered to undergo a course of anger management ..read more »
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Anger Management - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Kurt Fuller, Alan Covert, John Turturro
Director: Peter Segal
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Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson star (with a host of cameos from the likes of Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta and John McEnroe) in this comedy about a man who unwittingly discovers he has a lot of pent-up anger within him. Dave Buznick (Sandler) is ordered to undergo a course of anger management ..read more »
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About Schmidt
(2002)
Starring: June Squibb, Kathy Bates, Dermot Mulroney
Director: Alexander Payne
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Recently retired insurance actuary Warren Schimdt (Jack Nicholson) is struggling to adjust to his newfound freedom and finds his wife Helen extremely irritating. When she suddenly dies, Warren discovers some letters indicating that she once had an affair with his friend Ray and was therefore also ..read more »
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The Pledge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Sam Shepard, Aaron Eckhart
Director: Sean Penn
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On the day of his retirement, Nevada homicide detective Jerry Black lingers in his office one last time. But when the body of a murdered 8-year-old girl is discovered in the snow-blanketed mountains, the reluctant retiree is unable to step aside. Jerry offers his expertise at the crime scene, and ..read more »
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from 3,664 members
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The Crossing Guard
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Robin Wright
Director: Sean Penn
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Freddy Gale (Jack Nicholson) wants revenge on John Booth (David Morse), the man who killed his daughter in a drink-driving incident. When Booth is released from prison after six years, Gale makes a failed assassination attempt at the trailer where Booth lives, but vows to return. Jack Nicholson's ..read more »
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from 1,181 member
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As Good as it Gets
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Helen Hunt, Shirley Knight, Greg Kinnear
Director: James L. Brooks
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Curmudgeonly romantic writer Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is a neurotic homophobic racist who enjoys insulting his gay neighbour, artist Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear), and being rude to waitress Carol (Helen Hunt) at his local restaurant. However, when Simon is hospitalised, it falls to Melvin to ..read more »
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The Crossing Guard - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Robin Wright
Director: Sean Penn
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Freddy Gale (Jack Nicholson) wants revenge on John Booth (David Morse), the man who killed his daughter in a drink-driving incident. When Booth is released from prison after six years, Gale makes a failed assassination attempt at the trailer where Booth lives, but vows to return. Jack Nicholson's ..read more »
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Mars Attacks!
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening
Director: Tim Burton
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This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction ..read more »
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Blood and Wine
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Judy Davis
Director: Bob Rafelson
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Bob Rafelson has stated that this is the final part of an informal trilogy he started with "Five Easy Pieces" and continued with "The King Of Marvin Gardens". In the three, Nicholson has now played son, brother and father. In this one, Nicholson is a wealthy wine dealer who has distanced himself ..read more »
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Mars Attacks! - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening
Director: Tim Burton
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When Martians arrive on planet Earth, American President James Dale (Jack Nicholson) is persuaded to extend the hand of friendship. One of the President's advisers, Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan), has been studying the aliens, and is keen to make peaceful contact. However, the Martians gleefully ..read more »
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Wolf
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Plummer, James Spader
Director: Mike Nichols
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Driving alone one freezing night in Vermont, fading publishing executive Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) hits a wolf and thinks it is dead. When he gets out of his car to investigate, the wolf bites him. Will later finds that his hearing and sense of smell have become extraordinarily heightened. He ..read more »
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Wolf - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Plummer, James Spader
Director: Mike Nichols
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Driving alone one freezing night in Vermont, fading publishing executive Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) hits a wolf and thinks it is dead. When he gets out of his car to investigate, the wolf bites him. Will later finds that his hearing and sense of smell have become extraordinarily heightened. He ..read more »
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Man Trouble
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Bob Rafelson, Beverly D'Angelo, Ellen Barkin
Director: Bob Rafelson
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Opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) moves into her sister Andy's (Beverly D'Angelo) Hollywood home after her own house is mysteriously ransacked. But with Andy just about to publish a kiss-and-tell memoir which reveals uncomfortable information about her mobster ex-boyfriend (Harry Dean ..read more »
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A Few Good Men - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore
Director: Rob Reiner
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Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a Navy lawyer assigned to defend two men who accidentally killed a Private by asphyxiating him with a towel. Initially working out a quick and easy plea bargain with the prosecuting lawyer (Kevin Bacon), Kaffee is persuaded to investigate the case further by ..read more »
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A Few Good Men
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore
Director: Rob Reiner
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Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a Navy lawyer assigned to defend two men who accidentally killed a Private by asphyxiating him with a towel. Initially working out a quick and easy plea bargain with the prosecuting lawyer (Kevin Bacon), Kaffee is persuaded to investigate the case further by ..read more »
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Hoffa
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Danny De Vito, J.T. Walsh, Robert Prosky
Director: Danny De Vito
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Danny DeVito tries hard to give his biopic Hoffa an epic scope, yet he just misses the mark. Starring Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa, the film traces the life, career and mysterious disappearance of the labor leader. Hoffa follows the rise of the controversial figure through his early work during ..read more »
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The Two Jakes
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: David Keith, Ruben Blades, Harvey Keitel
Director: Jack Nicholson
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Jack Nicholson returns to his role as private investigator Jake Gittes in this belated sequel to Roman Polanski's classic 'Chinatown' (1974). It is 1948 and Jake has been hired by Julius Berman (Harvey Kietel) to investigate the extra-marital affairs of his wife Kitty (Meg Tilly). But when Jake ..read more »
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Batman
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton directs this big screen outing for the caped crusader. The streets of Gotham City are no longer safe for criminals, who are being picked off by a masked vigilante in a rubber suit - dubbed 'Batman' by the press. Reporter Alexander Knox (Robert Wuhl) teams with photographer Vicki Vale (..read more »
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Batman - Blu-ray
(1989)
Starring: Tra, Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton directs this big screen outing for the caped crusader. The streets of Gotham City are no longer safe for criminals, who are being picked off by a masked vigilante in a rubber suit - dubbed 'Batman' by the press. Reporter Alexander Knox (Robert Wuhl) teams with photographer Vicki Vale (..read more »
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The Witches of Eastwick
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon
Director: George Miller
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The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends -- Alex (Cher), Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Jane (Susan Sarandon) -- meet to chug martinis, learn Chinese aphrodisiac cooking and lament the scarcity of ..read more »
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Ironweed
(1987)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep
Director: Hector Babenco
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A schizophrenic drifter spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time in decades.
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Heartburn
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Milos Forman, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton
Director: Mike Nichols
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Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep) and Mark Forman (Jack Nicholson) meet at a friend's wedding. They fall in love, get married and all is seemingly fine until she discovers that whilst she has been pregnant he has been having an affair. Based on Nora Ephron's book about her marriage to journalist Carl ..read more »
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Prizzi's Honor
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: John Randolph, Kathleen Turner, William Hickey
Director: John Huston
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Hit-man Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson) falls in love with a 'tax consultant' (Kathleen Turner), who in fact turns out to be in the same business as him. Not only that, she represents the interests of a rival Mafia family, a discovery that places Charley in a classic head-versus-heart dilemma. ..read more »
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Terms Of Endearment
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: David Wohl, Debra Winger, Jeff Daniels
Director: James L. Brooks
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James L Brooks' multi-Oscar-winning film about the volatile relationship between the over-bearing Aurora (Shirley Maclaine) and Emma (Debra Winger), the daughter who cannot wait to escape her clutches. The story covers 30 years, and ranges from Emma's late-teens, her marriage to Flap Horton (Jeff ..read more »
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The Border
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo
Director: Tony Richardson
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L.A cop Charlie (Jack Nicholson) and his wife move to Texas when he joins the Mexican border patrol. Initially tempted to join his new partners in the racket of corruption and illicit backhanders that presently proliferates in the department, Charlie finds himself taking pity on the illegal ..read more »
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Reds - Blu-ray
(1981)
Starring: Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, Diane Keaton
Director: Warren Beatty
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Warren Beatty writes, directs and stars in this life story of John Reed, the radical socialist journalist who became the only American to be buried in the Kremlin. Focusing on Reed's relationship with Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), it follows their life together as they move from bohemian Greenwich ..read more »
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
(1981)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos
Director: Bob Rafelson
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Drifter Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson), is headed nowhere. Then he drifts into a job at a roadside diner and sees his boss alluring young wife Cora (Jessica Lange). They are both compelled by agonising passions they can neither control or completely understand, to become lovers with savage ..read more »
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Reds
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, Diane Keaton
Director: Warren Beatty
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Warren Beatty writes, directs and stars in this life story of John Reed, the radical socialist journalist who became the only American to be buried in the Kremlin. Focusing on Reed's relationship with Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), it follows their life together as they move from bohemian Greenwich ..read more »
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The Shining - Blu-ray
(1980)
Starring: Danny Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick directs this chilling adaptation of the Stephen King shocker. Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation ..read more »
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The Shining
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Danny Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick directs this chilling adaptation of the Stephen King shocker. Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation ..read more »
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Goin' South
(1978)
Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, Danny De Vito
Director: Jack Nicholson
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Comedy western starring Jack Nicholson as Henry Moon, an outlaw who narrowly escapes a lynch mob by marrying local spinster Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) and taking advantage of a local by-law which states that married men are exempt from hanging. However, after the danger passes, Julia insists ..read more »
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The Last Tycoon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Theresa Russell, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and ..read more »
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The Missouri Breaks
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Randy Quaid, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson
Director: Arthur Penn
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A rancher, a rustler, and a regulator face off in Arthur Penn's eccentric western. As a cover for their horse thievery, a gang of Montana rustlers, led by the laid-back Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson), buys a small farm adjacent to the ranch of their latest target/nemesis, Braxton (John McLiam). When ..read more »
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Tommy
(1975)
Starring: Paul Nicholas, Oliver Reed, Tina Turner
Director: Ken Russell
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Classic Seventies rock opera composed by Peter Townsend of The Who and directed by the eccentric Ken Russell. The story follows a deaf, dumb and blind kid who sure plays a mean pinball, acquiring a messianic status as he tours the country. The star-studded cast includes Jack Nicholson, Tina Turner ..read more »
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Will Sampson, Paul Lambert, Sydney Lassick
Director: Milos Forman
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With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to the ..read more »
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The Fortune
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing, Jack Nicholson
Director: Mike Nichols
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Mike Nicholls directs this drama set in 1920s America, following two hustlers (played by Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty) as they try to get hold of an heiress' fortune. The Mann Act prevents the transportation of women across state lines for 'immoral' purposes, a situation that puts philandering ..read more »
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The Passenger
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Ian Hendry, Jenny Runacre, Maria Schneider
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Suspenseful and haunting adventure starring Jack Nicholson. David Locke (Nicholson) is a television reporter on location in Africa. Returning to his hotel after getting lost and bogged in the desert, he discovers that the man in the room next to his is dead. After deciding that his own life wasn't ..read more »
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Chinatown - Blu-ray
(1974)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Director: Roman Polanski
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One of the seminal American films of the 1970s, Roman Polanski's detective yarn sees murder and scandal emerge from the drought of 1930s Southern California. Private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired to follow water commissioner Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), only to see him turn up ..read more »
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Chinatown
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Beulah Quo, Darrell Zwerling, Denny Arnold
Director: Roman Polanski
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One of the seminal American films of the 1970s, Roman Polanski's detective yarn sees murder and scandal emerge from the drought of 1930s Southern California. Private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired to follow water commissioner Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), only to see him turn up ..read more »
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The Last Detail
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Randy Quaid, Carol Kane, Otis Young
Director: Hal Ashby
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Two Navy lifers and one military innocent briefly attempt to thumb their nose at Authority in Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973). Badass Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and Mule Mulhall (Otis Young) are assigned to escort young sailor Meadows (Randy Quaid, who beat out John Travolta for the part) from ..read more »
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The King Of Marvin Gardens
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson
Director: Bob Rafelson
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Dreams die hard in wintry Atlantic City in Bob Rafelson's downbeat character drama. Depressive deejay David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) tends to his grandfather as he philosophizes on late-night Philadelphia talk radio. When his huckster older brother Jason (Bruce Dern) calls out of the blue one day, ..read more »
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Carnal Knowledge
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Cynthia O'Neal, Rita Moreno, Carol Kane
Director: Mike Nichols
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Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love. With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge (1971) ruthlessly exposed the damage wrought by pre-1960s sexual mores. From their post-World War II college years at Amherst through the Vietnam era, ..read more »
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Drive, He Said
(1971)
Starring: William Tepper, Karen Black, Bruce Dern
Director: Jack Nicholson
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Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for ..read more »
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Five Easy Pieces
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Susan Anspach, Fannie Flagg, Karen Black
Director: Bob Rafelson
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A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy ..read more »
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Easy Rider
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
Director: Dennis Hopper
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Bikers Captain America (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper, who also directs) set off across America on the proceeds of a cocaine deal. En route to the New Orleans Mardi Gras festival they stop off at a hippy commune, before being arrested in Texas for joining a street parade without a licence. ..read more »
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Easy Rider - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: Sabrina Scharf, Warren F, Peter Fonda
Director: Dennis Hopper
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Bikers Captain America (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper, who also directs) set off across America on the proceeds of a cocaine deal. En route to the New Orleans Mardi Gras festival they stop off at a hippy commune, before being arrested in Texas for joining a street parade without a licence. ..read more »
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Psych-Out
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg
Director: Richard Rush
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A deaf girl goes to San Francisco to find her missing brother, where she meets up with the leader of a rock band (Jack Nicholson) and an assorted bunch of 'Summer of Love' casualties, in this quirky hotch-potch of hippy trippy psychedelia. Yes, there is a whirly bad acid trip sequence. With music ..read more »
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Head
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Frank Zappa, Sonny Liston, Victor Matu
Director: Bob Rafelson
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The Monkees -- Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones and Peter Tork -- didn't really enjoy being labelled the Prefab Four back when their TV series was all the rage in 1966. With the help and support of Bob Rafaelson (co-producer, co-writer and director) and Jack Nicholson (co-producer, co-writer, ..read more »
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The Trip
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Roger Corman
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This Roger Corman production, with a script by Jack Nicholson, looks at the apparent 'curative' properties of LSD. TV commercial director Paul (Peter Fonda) is feeling the strain both at home and work. He consults a guru (Bruce Dern) who suggests Paul should take acid. This he does, and after a '..read more »
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
(1967)
Starring: George Segal, Joe Turkel, Harold J. Stone
Director: Roger Corman
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Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the events that lead to the bloody title showdown between rival mobsters Al Capone (Jason Robards) and Bugs Moran (Ralph Meeker) that marked a brutal end to a terrifying era. Fred ..read more »
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Hell's Angels On Wheels
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Sabrina Scharf, Jana Taylor, Adam Roarke
Director: Richard Rush
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A bunch of hairy guys on Harleys are causing trouble again in this, one of the best-remembered examples of the biker flicks of the 1960's. Poet (Jack Nicholson) is a moody gas station attendant who is looking for more excitement in his life. When a gang of bikers roars through town, Poet is ..read more »
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The Shooting
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Warren Oates, Will Hutchins, Jack Nicholson
Director: Monte Hellman
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Director Monte Hellman used his beloved hunter as hunted theme for his near-existential western The Shooting. Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates are starred in this bare-bones tale of an ex-bounty hunter (Oates) with a price on his head and the cocky young gun (Nicholson) who hopes to collect. The ..read more »
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Ride In The Whirlwind
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Katherine Squire
Director: Monte Hellman
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Director Monte Hellman and writer-star Jack Nicholson filmed this western simultaneously with The Shooting (1967). Nicholson stars as Wes, cowpuncher pal to Vern (Cameron Mitchell) and Otis (Tom Filer), who have all been hired as hands for a cattle roundup. En route to their new jobs, the men come ..read more »
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Flight To Fury
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Dewey Martin, Jack Nicholson
Director: Monte Hellman
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This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome ..read more »
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The Raven
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Olive Sturgess, Vincent Price
Director: Roger Corman
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Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales, it appears that the director chose this opportunity to let loose with outright parody; the result is a wonderfully entertaining romp with tongue planted firmly in cheek. The ..read more »
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The Haunting
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
Director: Roger Corman
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A lieutenant in Napoleon's army (Jack Nicholson) traces a mysterious woman to a castle on the Baltic coast and finds himself trapped by a mad baron (Boris Karloff). Atmospheric, low-budget horror from the great Roger Corman, also reportedly directed at points by future talents Francis Ford Coppola ..read more »
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The Terror
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson
Director: Roger Corman
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Cult classic period horror film starring a young Jack Nicholson as Lieutenant Duvalier, a young officer in Napoleon's army, who pursues the beautiful and mysterious Helene (Sandra Knight) to the castle of the elderly Baron Von Leppe (Boris Karloff). There, he discovers that Helene is the pawn of an ..read more »
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Velocity
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Georgianna Carter, Robert Bean, Jack Nicholson
Director: Harvey Berman
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Jack Nicholson's second starring role. Johnny Varron (Nicholson) is a smart-mouthed, arrogant punk from a gang of hot-rodders, who rules his gang with an iron hand. However, his obsession with controlling the gang leads to kidnapping, a high-speed car chase and ends in tragedy.
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The Little Shop Of Horrors
(1960)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze
Director: Roger Corman
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Roger Corman's cult horror comedy, in which a shy young florist bites off more than he can chew when he nurtures a maneating plant from outer space. Jack Nicholson made his film debut as a masochistic dental patient. Allegedly shot in two days, this film spawned a stage show and a 1986 remake.
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