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      Nickelodeon

      PG Now Playing 2 hr. 1 min. Comedy Drama List
      7% 15 Reviews Tomatometer 48% 250+ Ratings Audience Score In the silent-film era, attorney Leo Harrigan (Ryan O'Neal) and gunslinger Buck Greenway (Burt Reynolds) are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, Leo and Buck soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status -- but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke (Jane Hitchcock), leading to a heated personal rivalry. Read More Read Less Now in Theaters Now Playing Buy Tickets

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      Alec B The movie's problem is that it is has too much going on. Too many gags, too much plot, too many characters, etc. However there are some truly sublime moments (i.e. the ending) that keep it from being the disaster everyone thinks it is. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/24 Full Review Audience Member The movie's problem is that it is has too much going on. Too many gags, too much plot, too many characters, etc. However there are some truly sublime moments (i.e. the ending) that keep it from being the disaster everyone thinks it is. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Whatever occurred making this, O'Neal and Reynolds are excellent, and the results are often hilarious. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member I guess I'm easily amused, but I thought it was a fun little darling of a movie. I loved the fight scene between Ryan and Burt, so dang funny! A lot of hidden truths in there. Appealed to my sentimentalism. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member The bw directors cut mixes humor and pathos far superior to the bastardized color theatrical edition. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Suffering from the same smarmy writing as 'At Long Last Love', Bogdanovich's tribute to the beginnings of cinema is short on laughs or charm. Though the Neals, Reynolds, Keith and a cast of capables try, and there is a surprising amount of detail for a lower budget production, 'Nickelodeon' is simply short on laughs, most hurt by throwaway wordplay or tame, lackluster slapstick, not to mention wears what nostalgic charm it has thin very quickly, compounded further by it not going into any real detail on the beginnings & battles of early film making outside of a stale, uninteresting good guys/bad guys approach. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Pauline Kael New Yorker Bogdanovich has once again -- and catastrophically -- misunderstood his talent, and attempted an exercise in style instead of trusting his gift for telling popular stories with feeling. Jan 22, 2024 Full Review Variety Staff Variety Peter Bogdanovich's film is an okay comedy-drama about the early days of motion pictures. Aug 17, 2010 Full Review Dave Kehr Chicago Reader Bogdanovich is trying to do an interesting and commendable thing in dramatizing aesthetic passion; his failure is as noble as it is conspicuous. Aug 17, 2010 Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) The film completely lacks rhythm. [Full review in Spanish] Aug 15, 2023 Full Review Steve Warren The Barb (Atlanta) The comedy is stale, but it's the only thing in the picture that works at all. May 9, 2023 Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Monthly Film Bulletin The virtually total rejection by Bogdanovich of anything that exists beyond the boundaries of certified (and ossified) movie myth may help to explain the curious sterility of Nickelodeon in relation to its fascinating subject and sources. Nov 10, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis In the silent-film era, attorney Leo Harrigan (Ryan O'Neal) and gunslinger Buck Greenway (Burt Reynolds) are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, Leo and Buck soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status -- but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke (Jane Hitchcock), leading to a heated personal rivalry.
      Director
      Peter Bogdanovich
      Screenwriter
      Peter Bogdanovich, W.D. Richter
      Distributor
      Columbia Pictures
      Production Co
      British Lion Film Corporation, Chartoff-Winkler Productions, EMI Films Ltd., Columbia Pictures Corporation
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Dec 21, 1976, Wide
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 26, 2011
      Sound Mix
      Mono
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