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Mike Nichols
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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
(2009)
Starring: Marianne Hagan, Steve Carey, Amy Crowdis
Director: Mike Nichols
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Breadcrumbs finds a group of shady filmmakers falling prey to a murderous assailant while shooting an adult film at a remote cottage. Angie thought she had left her sordid past behind when a sleazy producer talked her into making one last movie. But as the cast and crew wind their way through a ..read more »
 
35%
from 4 members
Due for release on 20th February 2012
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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.
68%
from 49,312 members
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Charlie Wilson's War - HD
(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 »
70%
from 148 members
Currently unavailable
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Charlie Wilson's War - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Blunt, Denis O'Hare
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 »
71%
from 38 members
Not available for rental
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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 »
55%
from 72,098 members
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Closer - Blu-ray
(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 »
61%
from 1,817 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 »
63%
from 6,131 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 »
53%
from 256 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 »
62%
from 2,131 members
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The Birdcage
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest
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 »
69%
from 9,258 members
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Wolf - Blu-ray
(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 »
55%
from 153 members
Currently unavailable
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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...
58%
from 2,249 members
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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 »
67%
from 2,682 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 »
63%
from 1,530 member
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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 »
64%
from 665 members
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Working Girl
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, 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 »
70%
from 4,650 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 »
60%
from 947 members
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Silkwood
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Meryl Streep, Cher
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 »
67%
from 1,865 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 103 members
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Day Of The Dolphin
(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.
57%
from 118 members
Not currently released
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Carnal Knowledge
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel
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 912 members
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Catch 22
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Anthony Perkins
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 3,337 members
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The Graduate
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Director: Mike Nichols
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Just one word: plastic. Are you here for an affair? These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth rebellion seeped into the California upper middle-class in Mike Nichols' landmark hit. Mentally adrift the summer after graduating from college, suburbanite Benjamin Braddock (..read more »
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from 30,140 members
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The Graduate - Blu-ray
(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 »
78%
from 372 members
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The Graduate - HD
(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 »
72%
from 263 members
Not currently released
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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...
