Mr. Nice
43 Aliases. 89 Phone Lines. This is the Story of Howard Marks.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 11, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis & Crispin Glover | |
Performer: | Luis Tosar, Omid Djalili, Christian McKay, Elsa Pataky, Jack Huston, Jamie Harris, Sara Sugarman, Andrew Tiernan & Ken Russell | |
Directed by | Bernard Rose | |
Edited by | Bernard Rose & Teresa Font | |
Screenplay by | Bernard Rose | |
Original story by | Howard Marks | |
Composition by | Philip Glass | |
Director of Photography: | Bernard Rose |
Entertainment Reviews:
MR. NICE is a devilish and entertaining little picture based on the possibly somewhat true story of Howard Marks...
Movieline
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The writer-director tells the story with verve and small-budget ingenuity.
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Washington Post
Rating: 2/4 --
Ifans looks 20 years too old for the part, and the problem with the movie is it seems so desperate to be made that it barely cares that he spends half of his time miscast.
Boston Globe
There's grooviness in this evocative drama....The vibes are good. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: C+ --
Marks may be a gas as a storyteller, but there's a long way between a string of anecdotes and an actual narrative film. And "Mr. Nice," for all its energy, doesn't make the transition.
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Oregonian
Rating: B --
Writer-director Bernard Rose lets the picture bop along a little too loosely, but the vibes are good.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1.5/4 --
I'd recommend the similar "Blow" first, and I didn't even like that movie much.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Product Description:
The true story of a man who stumbled into a lucrative career as one of Europe's biggest drug dealers comes to the screen in this comedy-drama. Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) was a young Welshman studying at Oxford when he discovered there was something unusual about his dorm room -- it had a secret passageway that led to a storage space used by one of the school's top marijuana dealers. Marks and the dealer struck up a friendship as he became an enthusiastic customer, and a few years later, when plans to bring a large cache of hashish into England via Germany went haywire, Marks stepped in to help and was introduced to a circle of big league marijuana traffickers. Marks quit his job as a teacher to become a full time drug wholesaler, and while his new career cost him his first marriage, it introduced him to Judy (Chloe Sevigny), a lovely woman who became the love of his life. As Marks' business grew, he gained some interesting new associates, including an Irish Republican Army operative (David Thewlis) who knew how to get past customs agents, an intelligence agent (Christian McKay) working on both sides of the law and a wildly eccentric American marijuana kingpin (Crispin Glover). MR. NICE was adapted from the autobiography by the real-life Howard Marks; Marks is good friends with Rhys Ifans, who was cast to play him in the film.