Showing posts with label Mike Nichols. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Nichols. Show all posts

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Postcards From the Edge

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(1990)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Carrie Fisher
Producers: John Calley, Robert Greenhut, Neil A. Machlis, Susan MacNair, Mike Nichols

Synopsis: Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry. Meryl Streep plays Suzanne Vale, a popular movie actress well on her way to a Hollywood crack-up. -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Meryl Streep
  • Shirley MacLaine
  • Dennis Quaid
  • Gene Hackman
  • Richard Dreyfuss
  • Annette Bening

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Silkwood

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(1983) on IMDb

(1983)
Genre: Biography/Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Writers: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
Producers: Larry Cano, Michael Hausman, Buzz Hirsch, Mike Nichols, Tom Stovall, Joel Tuber

Synopsis: The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant. -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Meryl Streep
  • Kurt Russell
  • Cher
  • Craig T. Nelson
  • Fred Ward
  • Bruce McGill
  • David Strathairn

Working Girl

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(1988) on IMDb

(1988)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Kevin Wade
Producers: Robert Greenhut, Laurence Mark, Douglas Wick

Synopsis: When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's job. -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Melanie Griffith
  • Harrison Ford
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Joan Cusack
  • Philip Bosco
  • Oliver Platt
  • Kevin Spacey

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Angels in America

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(2003)
(TV Movie)
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Tony Kushner
Producers: Cary Brokaw, Celia D. Costas, Michael Haley, Mike Nichols, Marco Valerio Pugini

Synopsis: Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Al Pacino
  • Meryl Streep
  • Patrick Wilson
  • Emma Thompson
  • Jeffrey Wright
  • James Cromwell
  • Mary-Louise Parker
  • Ben Shenkman

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Charlie Wilson's War

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(2007)
Genre: Biography/Comedy/Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Aaron Sorkin, George Crile
Synopsis: A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Tom Hanks
  • Julia Roberts
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Amy Adams
  • Emily Blunt
 

Friday, November 12, 2010

The Graduate

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 (1967)
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Charles Webb

Synopsis: Ben has recently graduated college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt him when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Written by Zac Abrams)

Cast:
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Anne Bancroft
  • Katharine Ross