Watch Mikey And Nicky (1975) Free Online

Release Date: 1975   Duration: 119 min

Cast: M. Emmet Walsh, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, William Hickey, Joyce Van Patten, Sanford Meisner, Rose Arrick, Carol Grace, Peter Falk, Reuben Greene

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Gangster Film, Drama, Indie film, Crime Drama

Mikey and Nicky is a 1976 film written and directed by Elaine May. Using three cameras that she sometimes left running for hours, May captured spontaneous interaction between Peter Falk and John Cassavetes. This unusual technique and the resulting performances exceed the conventions of the gangster movie. Mikey and Nicky was released in New York City on December 21, 1976. The film was...  MORE

Mikey and Nicky is a 1976 film written and directed by Elaine May. Using three cameras that she sometimes left running for hours, May captured spontaneous interaction between Peter Falk and John Cassavetes. This unusual technique and the resulting performances exceed the conventions of the gangster movie. Mikey and Nicky was released in New York City on December 21, 1976. The film was originally intended as a summer 1976 release, then moved to Christmas 1976 due to editing problems. May missed the film's delivery date by almost a year because of her well-known perfectionism in the editing process. Litigation followed between the director and Paramount, with Paramount gaining possession of the film with final cut privilege. May didn't direct again for nearly 12 years. The film's original $1.8 million budget had grown to nearly $4.3 million by the time May turned the film over to Paramount. She shot 1.4 million feet of film, almost three times as much as was shot for Gone with the Wind. At one point, Cassavetes and Falk had both left the set and the cameras remained rolling for several minutes. A new camera operator said "Cut!" only to be immediately rebuked by May for usurping what is traditionally a director's command. He protested that the two actors had left the set. "Yes", replied May, "but they might come back". LESS