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Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director, producer, actor and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their acting experience. Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe, The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in Chicago. He then teamed up with his improv partner, Elaine May, to form the comedy duo Nichols and May. Their live improv acts were a hit on Broadway resulting in three albums, with their debut album winning a Grammy Award.

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Movies Made By Mike Nichols (30)

Crescendo! The Power of Music (2014)

Since its inception in Venezuela in 1976, the El Sistema youth orchestra program has transformed the lives of disadvantaged children worldwide by putting musical instruments in their hands and encouraging them through the mysterious power of music. Followi ...

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Friends with Kids (2012)

In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without signi ...

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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family. ...

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Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets. ...

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Closer (2004)

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other. ...

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Wit (2001)

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. ...

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What Planet Are You From? (2000)

A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. The alien ends up falling in love while a suspicious FAA agent tails him. ...

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Primary Colors (1998)

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorf ...

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The Designated Mourner (1997)

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view. ...

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The Birdcage (1996)

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents. ...

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Wolf (1994)

An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job. ...

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The Remains of the Day (1993)

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi ca ...

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Regarding Henry (1991)

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him. ...

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Postcards from the Edge (1990)

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment. ...

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Working Girl (1988)

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job. ...

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Biloxi Blues (1988)

A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II. ...

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Heartburn (1986)

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will. ...

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The Longshot (1986)

Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money. ...

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Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway (1985)

Whoopi Goldberg in her original one-woman show. ...

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Silkwood (1983)

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness inc ...

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The Gin Game (1981)

Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin ru ...

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Gilda Live (1980)

Gilda Radner is recorded during a live comedy concert. Radner's classic characters are seen in sketches that are sometimes more risque than when they appeared on television. During her breaks, the character Father Guido Sarducci takes the stage. ...

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The Fortune (1975)

A couple of bumbling 1920s hustlers attempt to obtain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder. ...

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The Day of the Dolphin (1973)

A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose. ...

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Carnal Knowledge (1971)

Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires. ...

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Catch-22 (1970)

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch. ...

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The Graduate (1967)

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. ...

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Bach to Bach (1967)

A Bach recording plays in a New York apartment, while off-screen a man and a woman in bed together for the first time engage in pseudo-intellectual conversation. Based on the Nichols and May sketch. ...

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity t ...

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Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962)

Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall is an American musical comedy television showcase starring Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, broadcast on CBS on June 11, 1962. The special was produced by Bob Banner and directed by Joe Hamilton. Banner came up with the id ...

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Movies Starring Mike Nichols (18)

Arthur Miller: Writer (2017)

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which continue to move audiences around the world today. He also made headlines for being targeted by the House Un-Ame ...

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Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)

With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director. ...

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Becoming Mike Nichols (2016)

This intimate portrait of director, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months before his death. Director Douglas McGrath documents Nichols's early life, as he opens up to his friend, d ...

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Everything Is Copy (2015)

A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein. ...

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Inventing David Geffen (2012)

Notoriously press and camera-shy, David Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this unflinching portrait of a complex and compelling man. His far-reaching influence - as an agent and manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, an ...

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The Madness of Boy George (2006)

Documenting the days and weeks preceding Boy George's appearance in a New York courtroom in June 2006 for cocaine possession and his subsequent sentencing to 5 days community service as a street cleaner by order of the US justice department. ...

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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married ...

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Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles (2003)

Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash', famous artists, actors and musicians speak out on how The Rutles influenced them. ...

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Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' (2001)

The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the film, and the subtle power of its execution. ...

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The Designated Mourner (1997)

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view. ...

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Nichols and May: Take Two (1996)

A documentary made for the PBS program American Masters about the comedy team Nichols and May. ...

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Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light (1996)

Richard Avedon was one of the great geniuses of 20th century photography, famous for his fashion photography done for the likes of Vogue, Versace, and Armani, and equally famous for his black and white portraits of American people, both famous and unknown. ...

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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton (1988)

Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton. ...

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Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary (1986)

Some of the biggest stars in show business pay a fun tribute to Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes to mark their 50th anniversary. ...

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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality. Including footage of King's ...

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All the Difference (1970)

From many distinguished American poets comes the connecting narrative for this gorgeously photographed treatise on America the Beautiful and America the Increasingly Ugly. ...

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Bach to Bach (1967)

A Bach recording plays in a New York apartment, while off-screen a man and a woman in bed together for the first time engage in pseudo-intellectual conversation. Based on the Nichols and May sketch. ...

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The Fabulous Fifties (1960)

The Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of quality showmanship and equally rich in the memories of a decade which it revived. In recognition, the Peabody Television Award for entertainment is presented to T ...

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