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Mikey and Nicky

Mikey and Nicky

1976 · 106 min · EN · R · 6.9 (214 votes)
Dir. Elaine May · Starring Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Rose Arrick, Carol Grace, William Hickey · Music John Strauss

“...don't expect to like 'em.”

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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…

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A suffocating, one-night descent into urban desperation. The air crackles with paranoia and the suffocating weight of doomed male friendship. Every shadow feels menacing, every conversation a ticking clock towards inevitable tragedy.

grittytensedepressinganxiousclaustrophobicfreneticgritty realismcharacter studyneo-noirlate-70s cinemaloyaltydesperationmasculinityfateurban decay
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