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Movie Info

One petty hoodlum's (Peter Falk) lifelong friendship with another (John Cassavetes) allows one to lead a hit man to the other.
  • Rating:
    R
  • Genre:
    drama
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Elaine May
  • Producer:
    Michael Hausman
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Cast & Crew

Peter Falk
Mikey
John Cassavetes
Nicky Godalin
Ned Beatty
Kinney
Rose Arrick
Annie
Carol Grace
Nellie
William Hickey
Sid Fine
Sanford Meisner
Dave Resnick
Joyce Van Patten
Jan
M. Emmet Walsh
Bus Driver
Elaine May
Director
Michael Hausman
Producer
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Critic Reviews for Mikey and Nicky

All Critics (23) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (3)

  • It is a vivid, almost sensually rancid slice of 1970s cinema, a movie in which you can almost taste the sweat in the air.

    June 15, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

    Peter Bradshaw

    Guardian

  • What emerges is a profound, unsentimental portrait of male friendship-and of its ultimate impossibility.

    January 1, 2000 | Full Review…

    Dave Kehr

    Chicago Reader

  • [Director Elaine] May's film is a nuclear attack on toxic masculinity, and among the more challenging films I've ever watched... It's necessary. Seeing is believing.

    May 5, 2021 | Full Review…

    Matt Patches

    Polygon

  • The finale gives all that came before a greater sense of dread as we realize that Nicky's mounting paranoia might have been the only thing protecting him from the start.

    March 12, 2021 | Full Review…

    Allyson Johnson

    Cambridge Day

  • An excellent recuperation of what may have been Elaine May's most accomplished achievement, Mikey and Nicky is a sublimely sad, shockingly grim portrait of friendship, toxic masculinity and the dismal realities of duplicity.

    August 14, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Nicholas Bell

    IONCINEMA.com

  • A meticulously constructed character study with all the verve and energy of improvisation.

    April 23, 2020 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…

    Nathanael Hood

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Audience Reviews for Mikey and Nicky

  • May 28, 2019
    Elaine May pulls no punches here. She allows Falk and Cassavetes to wallow in their character's most toxic tendencies and yet you still see their humanity.
    Alec B Super Reviewer
  • Feb 25, 2008
    a black comedy w/o jokes, and like a Cassavettes movie w/o excess, every action goes the real way not the movie way; it hurts
    Adam M Super Reviewer
  • Oct 17, 2007
    Cassavettes and Falk together for two hours...need I say more?
    Tim S Super Reviewer
  • Jan 28, 2007
    Not a typical mob movie, they are more of a side story. The real story is basically shot like a case study of two friends. It was a good movie and it was nice to see Peter Falk in a different type role, since this was the Columbo era. It shows a friend pushing his other to the breaking point through deceit and selfishness. It had very good acting and you could believe the bond between Falk and Casavetes. The end has a nice build up with a sudden but warranted end.
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