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Mikey and Nicky
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
1976 · Directed by Elaine May · 106 min · Crime · Drama · 30 frames
Tagline
...don't expect to like 'em.
Crew
- Written by: Elaine May
- Cinematography: Bernie Abramson, Victor J. Kemper
- Edited by: John Carter, Sheldon Kahn
- Music: John Strauss
- Production design: Paul Sylbert
- Produced by: Michael Hausman
Cast
- Peter Falk as Mikey
- John Cassavetes as Nicky
- Ned Beatty as Kinney
- Rose Arrick as Annie
- Carol Grace as Nellie
- William Hickey as Sid Fine
- Sanford Meisner as Dave Resnick
- Joyce Van Patten as Jan
- M. Emmet Walsh as Bus Driver
- Sy Travers as Hotel Clerk
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Hebrew, English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $4,300,000
- Themes: philadelphia, pennsylvania, hitman, male friendship, on the run, bookie, one night, existentialism, woman director, intense, depressing
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