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Mike Nichols - filmography
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Charlie Wilson's War
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Amy Adams, 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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Charlie Wilson's War - HD DVD Version
(2007)
Starring: Amy Adams, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
Director: Mike Nichols
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The first time the audience sees Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) in the early 1980s, he seems far from a model politician. Surrounded by strippers, a Playboy Playmate, and cocaine, the naked congressman lies in a hot tub at a party. Despite the distractions, the TV news catches Charlie'..read more »
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Closer
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman
Director: Mike Nichols
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Are humans meant to mate for life - What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them - Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time - How well does anyone really know the one that they love. Directed by Mike ..read more »
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from 67,436 members
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Closer - BLU-RAY Version
(2004)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman
Director: Mike Nichols
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Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them? Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time? How well does anyone really know the one that they love? Directed by Mike ..read more »
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61%
from 1,052 member
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Angels In America
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson
Director: Mike Nichols
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In transferring Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play to the small screen, director Mike Nichols has crafted a profound, ambitious masterpiece. The film follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear ..read more »
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from 5,282 members
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What Planet Are You From?
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Annette Bening, John Goodman, Garry Shandling
Director: Mike Nichols
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The comic story of an alien, H-1449-6 (Shandling - THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW), sent to Earth to impregnate a human woman as part of a fiendish plot to conquer the Universe. Assuming the identity of Harold Anderson, he attempts to blend into human society (Phoenix, AZ to be exact) and begin his search ..read more »
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from 215 members
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Primary Colors
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton
Director: Mike Nichols
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John Travolta leads an all-star cast (including Oscar winners Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates and Billy Bob Thornton) on a wild race to the presidency in this savagely funny comedy. Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ..read more »
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from 1,548 member
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The Birdcage
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest
Director: Mike Nichols
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In Mike Nichols's hilarious remake of the 1978 French comedy LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, Robin Williams stars as Armand Goldman, a gay cabaret owner who lives in Miami's South Beach with his partner, Albert (Nathan Lane), the club's star performer. Armand and Albert must try in vain to pass as a typical ..read more »
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67%
from 7,708 members
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Wolf - BLU-RAY Version
(1994)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader
Director: Mike Nichols
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When a mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor gets bitten by a wolf, it gives him a shot of confidence over younger colleagues, highly tuned senses and a few new lycanthropic appetites. Like a clever New Yorker cartoon, this urbane horror film satirizes middle age in New York's cutthroat social and ..read more »
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from 80 members
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Wolf
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader
Director: Mike Nichols
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One dark and snowy night Will Randall collides with a wolf on a mountain road. The injured animal runs off into the night, but not before giving Bill a deep bite on the wrist. From then on his life begins to change as he is drawn into the mystical spirit of the wolf. The werewolf is re-born...
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from 1,908 member
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Regarding Henry
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn
Director: Mike Nichols
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Henry Turner (Harrison Ford), a wealthy, high-powered, highly successful Manhattan lawyer, seems to have everything -- a perfect wife (Annette Bening), a perfect daughter, a perfect life. In fact, Henry is completely cold, rigid and unable to experience love or joy in his day-to- day existence. ..read more »
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from 2,163 members
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Postcards From The Edge
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Dennis Quaid, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Mike Nichols
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An actress with a drug and alcohol problem, recovering from a near fatal overdose, accepts a minor role in a film on the condition that she lives with a responsible person during her rehabilitation. That 'person' is her mother, a big star from the 50's who sees herself in her daughter. Both must ..read more »
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from 1,105 member
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Working Girl
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith
Director: Mike Nichols
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A young secretary (Melanie Griffith in an Oscar-nominated performance) with dreams of moving up the corporate ladder thinks that her brains will help her achieve her goals. And when she finds a job with a seemingly helpful and sympathetic boss who's also a woman (played by Sigourney Weaver) it ..read more »
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69%
from 3,889 members
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Biloxi Blues
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, Matthew Broderick
Director: Mike Nichols
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In the second of Neil Simon's semiautobiographical trilogy (with BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BROADWAY BOUND), Matthew Broderick plays Simon's alter ego, Eugene Jerome. This time Eugene is in army basic training during World War II, and his general dissatisfaction with military life is exacerbated by ..read more »
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from 605 members
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Heartburn
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Maureen Stapleton
Director: Mike Nichols
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Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel chronicling the breakup of her marriage to investigative journalist Carl Bernstein (ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN) is adapted for the big screen by director Mike Nichols and solidly acted by Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. Rachel Samstat (Streep) is Ephron's stand-in,..read more »
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from 729 members
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Silkwood
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Director: Mike Nichols
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Mike Nichols's film is based on the tragic true story of Karen Silkwood, an employee of an Oklahoma plutonium plant who tries to raise public awareness about dangerous conditions at the site. Meryl Streep stars as the title character. The movie received five Academy Award nominations, including ..read more »
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from 1,349 member
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The Fortune
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Stockard Channing
Director: Mike Nichols
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Following the passing of the 'Mann Act' which prohibited the transportation of women across state lines for 'immoral purposes' a man persuades his best friend to marry his sweetheart while his divorce is finalised...
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from 71 members
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Day Of The Dolphin
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Fritz Weaver
Director: Mike Nichols
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George C. Scott stars as a scientist who, along with his wife, trains dolphins to speak. During his experiments, the dolphins are kidnapped by the military, an organisation that has other plans for them. Buck Henry wrote the script and even performed some of the dolphin voices.
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55%
from 89 members
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Carnal Knowledge
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel
Director: Mike Nichols
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Director Mike Nichols's provocative film, based on a Jules Feiffer script about the changes in America's sexual mores over the course of the three decades, chronicles the bitter experiences of two middle-class American males. Jonathan (Jack Nicholson), a cruel but charismatic misogynist, and Sandy (..read more »
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from 728 members
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Catch 22
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Anthony Perkins
Director: Mike Nichols
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Based on Joseph Heller's much-loved best-selling novel, this sometimes disturbing antiwar satire centers around a group of World War II fliers in the Mediterranean and the insanity of war. The catch-22 of the title deals with a military snafu that results when a bombardier in the war attempts to ..read more »
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from 2,699 members
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The Graduate
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Director: Mike Nichols
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Director Mike Nichols's THE GRADUATE is the satirical coming-of-age comedy that became an emotional touchstone for an entire generation. In the late 1960s, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a confused college graduate, is pulled in myriad directions by family, friends, and associates just days ..read more »
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from 25,834 members
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Graduate, The - HD DVD Version
(1967)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Director: Mike Nichols
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Director Mike Nichols's THE GRADUATE is the satirical coming-of-age comedy that became an emotional touchstone for an entire generation. In the late 1960s, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a confused college graduate, is pulled in myriad directions by family, friends, and associates just days ..read more »
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72%
from 218 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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In the searing drama WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, a college professor and his wife play vicious emotional games with their unsuspecting evening guests. George (Richard Burton) is an alcoholic college professor; Martha (Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor) is his virago of a wife. George and Martha ..read more »
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77%
from 243 members
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Mike Nichols facts
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Grrrrrrr .... 24 November 2004
...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...
Supremely enjoyable 29 October 2004
Unfortunately, this could never make the bar set by the book. 14 December 2004
