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Blanchett's pregnancy helped Roberts find father figure in Nichols -
13 March 2012
-Julia Roberts has Cate Blanchett to thank for her close friendship with director Mike Nichols - because the Notting Hill star was only cast in 2004 movie Closer when the Aussie actress became pregnant and pulled out of the project.-The romantic drama, which co-starre
Mike Nichols - what members say
review by from Colchester, England
Grrrrrrr .... 24 November 2004
review by from Colchester, England
Supremely enjoyable 29 October 2004
review by from London
Unfortunately, this could never make the bar set by the book. 14 December 2004
Mike Nichols - filmography
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Breadcrumbs
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Dan Shaked, Marianne Hagan, Steve Carey
Director: Mike Nichols
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Watch now: Unavailable
Horror in which the classic fairy tale of 'Hansel and Gretel' is re-imagined. A group of adult filmmakers head to an isolated cabin in the woods to shoot their latest film. While there they encounter two mysterious children, brother and sister Henry (Dan Shaked) and Patti (Amy Crowdis). When things ..read more »
 
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from 116 members
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Charlie Wilson's War - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Shiri Appleby, Ned Beatty, Rachel Nichols
Director: Mike Nichols
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Oscar nominated drama starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Based on the book by George Crile, the movie tells the story of how one congressman who loved a good time, one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one renegade CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to ..read more »
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from 183 members
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Charlie Wilson's War
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Erick Avari, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
Director: Mike Nichols
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A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
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from 51,161 members
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Closer
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Clive Owen, Jude Law
Director: Mike Nichols
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Drama about four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen), their chance meetings, instant attractions and brutal betrayals. Dan (Jude Law) is a writer in London who wants to finish a novel, but in the meantime supports himself by writing obituaries. One day he meets Alice ..read more »
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from 73,360 members
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Closer - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Clive Owen, Jude Law
Director: Mike Nichols
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Drama about four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen), their chance meetings, instant attractions and brutal betrayals. Dan (Jude Law) is a writer in London who wants to finish a novel, but in the meantime supports himself by writing obituaries. One day he meets Alice ..read more »
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from 1,990 member
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Angels In America
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ben Shenkman, Emma Thompson, Al Pacino
Director: Mike Nichols
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HBO's highly acclaimed heavyweight six-hour TV drama, adapted from two Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway plays by Tony Kushner, 'The Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika'. Kushner also wrote the screenplay for the TV adaptation, which stars Hollywood stalwarts Al Pacino and Meryl Streep alongside ..read more »
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from 6,322 members
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What Planet Are You From?
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Judy Greer, Greg Kinnear
Director: Mike Nichols
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In order to save his emotionless, all-male race from extinction, alien Harold (Gary Shandling) travels to Earth to find and impregnate a mate. Posing as a banker, Harold's attempts to romance members of the opposite sex all fall flat due to his tactless chat up lines. After a colleague advises him ..read more »
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from 272 members
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Primary Colors
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Emma Thompson, John Travolta, Kathy Bates
Director: Mike Nichols
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This political satire, based on a book by an (originally) anonymous insider (now known to be Joe Klein) who worked on Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign, centres on the charismatic, philandering, power-hungry Southern Democrat governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta). Together with his equally ..read more »
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from 2,273 members
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The Birdcage
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Christine Baranski, Dan Futterman
Director: Mike Nichols
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Director Mike Nichols teams up with his former partner/screenwriter Elaine May for the first time in many years and for the first time together in films to create this sophisticated, remake of the phenomenally popular French musical farce La Cage aux Folles that stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, ..read more »
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from 9,602 members
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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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from 171 members
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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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from 2,413 members
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Regarding Henry
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Donald Moffat, Annette Bening
Director: Mike Nichols
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Harrison Ford stars as Henry, a successful but unscrupulous New York attorney who is shot during a hold-up at a convenience store. Although he survives, he is left with no memory, speech or motor skills. During his painful recovery Henry decides he no longer wants to be the cynical person he's told ..read more »
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from 2,835 members
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Postcards from the Edge
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Gene Hackman, Rene Assa
Director: Mike Nichols
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Based on actress Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel, this darkly comic drama focuses on the strained relationship between showbiz mother and daughter, Doris Mann (Shirley Maclaine) and Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep). Tensions between the two are brought to a head when Suzanne, fresh out of ..read more »
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from 1,681 member
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Working Girl
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Joan Cusack, Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith
Director: Mike Nichols
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Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is ..read more »
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from 4,892 members
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Biloxi Blues
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker, Christopher Walken
Director: Mike Nichols
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Matthew Broderick narrates and stars in this Neil Simon comedy (based on Neil Simon's own experiences) about army life for a group of new recruits. Drawn from a variety of backgrounds, they find it tough going. Christopher Walken plays Sergeant Toomey, the sadistic drill sergeant who controls their ..read more »
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from 710 members
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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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from 1,077 member
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Silkwood
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Kurt Russell, Josef Sommer
Director: Mike Nichols
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Based on a true story, Silkwood begins and ends with Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) driving along a lonely road in 1974, heading to a meeting with a New York Times reporter to deliver evidence of negligence at the Kerr-McGee Plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma. The balance of the film flashes back to Karen'..read more »
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from 2,066 members
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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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from 118 members
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Day Of The Dolphin
(1973)
Starring: Paul Sorvino, Trish Van Devere, George C. Scott
Director: Mike Nichols
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After years of work, marine biologist Jake Terrell (George C Scott) has found a way of communicating verbally with the dolphins he houses in his Florida research centre. However, when it becomes clear that his sponsors want the dolphins trained to perform a commando-like sabotage operation on the ..read more »
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from 125 members
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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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from 999 members
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Catch 22
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Paula Prentiss, Bob Newhart, Martin Sheen
Director: Mike Nichols
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Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing ..read more »
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from 3,534 members
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The Graduate
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Norman Fell, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Mike Nichols
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Mike Nichols directs this 1960s comedy drama starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. After graduating from college, Ben Braddock (Hoffman) returns to his wealthy parents' South Californian home unsure of what he wants to do next. Feeling pressurised to get on with his life, the ..read more »
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from 31,438 members
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The Graduate - Blu-ray
(1967)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Norman Fell, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Mike Nichols
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Mike Nichols directs this 1960s comedy drama starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. After graduating from college, Ben Braddock (Hoffman) returns to his wealthy parents' South Californian home unsure of what he wants to do next. Feeling pressurised to get on with his life, the ..read more »
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from 601 members
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Director: Mike Nichols
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Mike Nichols' directorial debut is an adaptation of Edward Albee's controversial stage play, starring husband-and-wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. George (Burton) is a foul-mouthed, drunken university professor married for two decades to the equally foul-mouthed, drunken Martha (Taylor), ..read more »
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from 2,031 members
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Mike Nichols facts
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...e rest of the movie, but it's made up for by a pretty cool twist.
The reason Mike Nichols is such a hit-and-miss director is because he seems to make films that he cares...
