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Nickelodeon

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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.
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Pauline Kael The New Yorker 01/22/2024
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. Go to Full Review
Variety Staff Variety 08/17/2010
Peter Bogdanovich's film is an okay comedy-drama about the early days of motion pictures. Go to Full Review
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader 08/17/2010
Bogdanovich is trying to do an interesting and commendable thing in dramatizing aesthetic passion; his failure is as noble as it is conspicuous. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Dec 6
3/4
A flawed yet charming homage to the early days of moviemaking. Go to Full Review
Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) 08/15/2023
The film completely lacks rhythm. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Steve Warren The Barb (Atlanta) 05/09/2023
The comedy is stale, but it's the only thing in the picture that works at all. Go to Full Review
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Alec B 02/20/2024 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. See more 02/12/2022 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. See more 05/31/2020 Whatever occurred making this, O'Neal and Reynolds are excellent, and the results are often hilarious. See more 07/20/2015 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. See more 02/15/2014 The bw directors cut mixes humor and pathos far superior to the bastardized color theatrical edition. See more 11/18/2013 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. See more Read all reviews
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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
Producer
Robert Chartoff, Frank Marshall, Irwin Winkler
Screenwriter
Peter Bogdanovich, W.D. Richter
Distributor
Columbia Pictures
Production Co
British Lion Film Corporation, EMI Films Ltd., Columbia Pictures Corporation, Chartoff-Winkler Productions
Rating
PG
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 21, 1976, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 26, 2011
Runtime
2h 1m
Sound Mix
Mono
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