Becoming Mike Nichols

Becoming Mike Nichols (2016)

Becoming a Comedian. Becoming a Director. Becoming a Filmmaker.

This intimate portrait of director, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months before his death. Director Douglas McGrath documents Nichols’s early life, as he opens up to his friend, director Jack O’Brien, about the storied beginnings of his career.

Date of release
2016-01-28
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Douglas McGrath

Casting

Interesting facts

Becoming Mike Nichols is a 2016 documentary film directed by Douglas McGrath about the life of Mike Nichols. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 29, 2016, and was later broadcast on HBO on February 22, 2016.

Production

The film contains interviews between Jack O'Brien and Mike Nichols filmed in the months before the death of Mike Nichols in 2014. The interviews were held on two nights, one with an audience and one without. Both interviews were held at the Golden Theatre in New York City where An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May premiered 54 years earlier.

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