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Mikey and Nicky
Mikey and Nicky
7.9
/10
2,027 Ratings

MIKEY AND NICKY

Directed by Elaine May
United States, 1976
Drama

Synopsis

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…

Synopsis

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…

Our take

Brilliantly written and directed by the great (and too unheralded) Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky is an eloquent two-hander and a lost treasure from the 70s golden age of Hollywood. Co-starring Cassavetes, and a never-better Peter Falk!