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Mikey and Nicky

Play trailer Poster for Mikey and Nicky R Released Dec 21, 1976 1h 59m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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One petty hoodlum's (Peter Falk) lifelong friendship with another (John Cassavetes) allows one to lead a hit man to the other.
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Richard Brody The New Yorker May... borrowed the scarily intense and spontaneous performance style of Cassavetes’s films to expose the cruelty of their male bravado—the ugliness of what his men do to women and what his women take from men. Feb 7, 2023 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian It is a vivid, almost sensually rancid slice of 1970s cinema, a movie in which you can almost taste the sweat in the air. Rated: 5/5 Jun 15, 2018 Full Review Dave Kehr Chicago Reader What emerges is a profound, unsentimental portrait of male friendship-and of its ultimate impossibility. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Mitchell Beaupre Paste Magazine Those complicated emotions are crucial to this bizarre male friendship, a specific form of hateful camaraderie rarely captured on screen as authentically as this. Rated: 10/10 Sep 22, 2022 Full Review Matt Patches Polygon [Director Elaine] May's film is a nuclear attack on toxic masculinity, and among the more challenging films I've ever watched... It's necessary. Seeing is believing. May 5, 2021 Full Review Allyson Johnson Cambridge Day The finale gives all that came before a greater sense of dread as we realize that Nicky's mounting paranoia might have been the only thing protecting him from the start. Mar 12, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Denise T Meandering, dull, self indulgent and worse than pointless. Hard to believe there was an actual script. Elaine May was apparently allergic to the word cut when she made this. Shot nearly 3X the footage of Gone With the Wind according to wiki. Went way over budget yet it feels like it was made with a home movie cam and a flashlight Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/10/24 Full Review Allan H The interaction of the two characters goes beyond acting for money. Hard to believe this was not improvised. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/24 Full Review Alec B Elaine May pulls no punches here. She allows Falk and Cassavetes to wallow in their character's most toxic tendencies and yet you still see their humanity. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/08/24 Full Review Steve D I didn't buy into the central friendship. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/10/23 Full Review Cocoo299 I mildly enjoyed this movie. MILDLY. The performances of the actors were superb, but the script was far too thin to justify a nearly 2 hour run-time. If they'd cut out thirty minutes of running and pushing and shoving, the movie would've felt far less monotonous. Although this movie was far longer than it should've been, watching the actors put on such a MARVELOUS performance is almost enough to make up for it. I'd recommend it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/23/23 Full Review alan r I realise I am ploughing a lonely furrow here but I hated everything about it. I thought it boring, overlong, needlessly hard to see, indulgent and pretentious and in the case of Cassavetes over-acted and hammy. Films can change people's opinions and engage with their prejudices, they can touch us and inspire us. But to do this they have to engage an audience - a fact that seems to have escaped or been dismissed as too "commercial" by Elaine May. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis One petty hoodlum's (Peter Falk) lifelong friendship with another (John Cassavetes) allows one to lead a hit man to the other.
Director
Elaine May
Producer
Michael Hausman
Screenwriter
Elaine May
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Paramount Pictures
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 21, 1976, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 26, 2019
Runtime
1h 59m
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