Mikey and Nicky (1976)
- 1976
- ·R
- ·119 min
Nick está desesperado, encerrado en un hotel barato, sufriendo una úlcera y convencido de que un mafioso local quiere que lo maten.
Llama a Mikey, su amigo desde la infancia, pero cuando llega Mikey.
- Actores
- John Cassavetes·Ned Beatty·Peter Falk·Rose Arrick
- Dirigido por
- Elaine May
- Género
- Crime·Drama
- Idioma
- English·Hebrew
- País
- USA
- Director
- Elaine May
Dear Elaine May, your film is one which can be enjoyed for the actors alone. Peter Falk and John Cassavetes literally live their roles as a couple of lowlife gangsters.
Yesss, I want more Peter Falk movies.
A rare movie that imposes by its originality, rawness and authenticity, wrote by Elaine May who also directed, she underlies on facts which she witnessed in her tender age on New York and brings to screen a curious story about two closest childhood friends of the underworld of the crime, when one of them Nicky (John Cassavetes) was in trouble with his Boss due he had witlessly embezzles money from the Mob, he asking for help of Mikey (Peter Falk) from his hideout at cheap hotel at bad area, he needs get out of the town safe, actually Mikey ought delivers his friend to a hired gunman Kinney (Ned Beatty) at Mob Boss's Resnick's behest, however the slippery and leery Nick tries puzzle Mikey many times pretending to go in a such place, he sudden changes his mind heading to another place, like at cemetery on his mother's grave, having a date with his lover, getting in trouble in a bus, thereby mess up Mikey's plan to hand over his doomed friend, along the grueling long night across the dark city they playing games, get together good old reminiscences from their teenage years and also fighting hard for a broken wristwatch at street, Cassavetes and Falk were good friends indeed, it helps to much the chemistry on both characters, slowing the viewers will unraveling the beings behind of the characters, his weak points and his nature, a movie to study the human behavior in jeopardy and under pressure, highly recommended !!
