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Mikey And Nicky

1976, Movie, R, 119 mins

Mikey And Nicky: Review

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There is much to enjoy in this movie, but just as much to yawn over. One has the feeling that this was a play that was never produced on stage but went directly to the screen from the typewriter. Since so much of it is dialogue with very little cinematic action, it just feels stagebound. Cassavetes and Falk are two small-time thugs who have been friends since their youth. Cassavetes is going to be killed by Beatty, the unlikely hit man in the service of boss Meisner (who was just about everyone's acting coach in New York at one time). Cassavetes gets in touch with Falk after trying to get help from his estranged wife, Van Patten, and his current amour, Grace. Falk is apparently going to help Cassavetes get away from the potential assassin, though we are often struck by Falk's words and actions and not sure if he is friend or foe. Some very touching scenes punctuate the camaraderie, but the film is essentially far too long, self-indulgent, and talky to elicit much emotional response. It's a character study that would be at home in an East Village theater. It's hard to say where the script ends and the improvisation begins, as in so many of Cassavetes' films. The executive producer was veteran TV executive Bud Austin, who had run Paramount Television before moving into feature production. Very foul language and some painful sequences make this hardly fit for anyone with a priggish attitude. This was the third film directed by May and the most experimental. Her first two were A NEW LEAF (which she also wrote and costarred in) and THE HEARTBREAK KID, with a script by Neil Simon and some terrific performances by Jeannie Berlin, Charles Grodin, and Cybill Shepherd. leave a comment
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