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  • Wolf
  • Wolf review by Noel Clay from Colchester, England
    Rated - 3 stars 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...  
  • The Graduate
  • The Graduate review by Noel Clay from Colchester, England
    Rated - 5 stars Supremely enjoyable 29 October 2004
    ... slightly surreal, dreamy atmosphere. I'm definitely going to check out more of Mike Nichols earlier films, although I doubt they'll match up to this one. Does the movie...  
  • Catch 22
  • Catch 22 review by Max from London
    Rated - 4 stars Unfortunately, this could never make the bar set by the book. 14 December 2004
    ...passed around hollywood for a few years before someone found the guts to do it (Mike Nichols). It has a great cast and is very entertaining but looses steam towards the en...  

Mike Nichols - filmography


  • Charlie Wilson's War on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Amy Adams,  Tom Hanks,  Julia Roberts
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 69% from 20,070 members
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  • Charlie Wilson's War - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Amy Adams,  Tom Hanks,  Julia Roberts
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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'...
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 23 members
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  • Closer on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Jude Law,  Natalie Portman
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 9,653 members
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  • Closer - BLU-RAY Version (2004)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Jude Law,  Natalie Portman
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 471 members
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  • Angels In America (2 discs) on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Meryl Streep,  Emma Thompson
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 18
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 66% from 1,113 members
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  • What Planet Are You From? on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  John Goodman,  Garry Shandling
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 2.5 53% from 195 members
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  • Primary Colors on DVD (1998)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Emma Thompson,  Billy Bob Thornton
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 65% from 324 members
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  • The Birdcage on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Gene Hackman,  Dianne Wiest
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 69% from 2,040 members
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  • Wolf on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  James Spader
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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...
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 426 members
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  • Regarding Henry on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Annette Bening,  Bill Nunn
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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. ...
    Rate this: 3.5 67% from 535 members
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  • Postcards From The Edge on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Dennis Quaid,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 64% from 161 members
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  • Biloxi Blues on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Christopher Walken,  Matt Mulhern,  Matthew Broderick
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 563 members
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  • Working Girl on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Harrison Ford,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 1,432 members
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  • Heartburn on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Meryl Streep,  Maureen Stapleton
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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,...
    Rate this: 3.0 64% from 131 members
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  • Silkwood on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Kurt Russell,  Cher
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 68% from 417 members
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  • Day Of The Dolphin on DVD (1973)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Trish Van Devere,  Fritz Weaver
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: PG
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 52% from 69 members
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  • Carnal Knowledge on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Candice Bergen,  Art Garfunkel
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 18
    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 (...
    Rate this: 2.5 57% from 115 members
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  • Catch 22 on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Martin Balsam,  Richard Benjamin,  Anthony Perkins
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 67% from 575 members
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  • Graduate, The - HD DVD Version (1967)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Anne Bancroft,  Katharine Ross
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 145 members
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  • The Graduate on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Anne Bancroft,  Katharine Ross
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 6,386 members
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  • The Fortune on DVD
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Jack Nicholson,  Stockard Channing
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 12
    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...
    Rate this: 2.5 48% from 58 members
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Mike Nichols - downloads


  • Charlie Wilson's War for Download (2007)
    Starring: Amy Adams,  Tom Hanks,  Julia Roberts
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    Buy from: £13.99
    Run time: 102 minutes
    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.
    Rate this: 3.0 55% from 7 members
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Mike Nichols facts

5 most recent films


Charlie Wilson's War - 3.5 stars
Charlie Wilson's War - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Closer - 3.0 stars
Closer - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Angels In America - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Wit - 4.0 stars
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 4.0 stars
Graduate, The - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
The Graduate - 3.5 stars
Charlie Wilson's War - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Ultimate 80s Collection - Vol. 1 - 1.5 stars
Charlie Wilson's War - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
The Fortune - 2.5 stars
Day Of The Dolphin - 2.5 stars
Carnal Knowledge - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Julia Roberts - 5 times - show films
Meryl Streep - 4 times - show films
Jack Nicholson - 4 times - show films
Erick Avari - 3 times - show films
Shiri Appleby - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Susan Seidelman - 1 times - show films
Rob Reiner - 1 times - show films
n - 1 times - show films