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  • 1976
  • PG
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 1 m
  • 1976
  • PG
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 1 m
Nickelodeon

Summary A lawyer, then a writer, then a film director, is the career path of the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway.

Directed By: Peter Bogdanovich

Written By: W.D. Richter, Peter Bogdanovich

  • 1976
  • PG
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 1 m
  • 1976
  • PG
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 1 m

Nickelodeon

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
52
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Summary A lawyer, then a writer, then a film director, is the career path of the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway.

Directed By: Peter Bogdanovich

Written By: W.D. Richter, Peter Bogdanovich

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
52
22% Positive
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78% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
52
22% Positive
2 Reviews
78% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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75
Bogdanovich’s affection for film’s embryonic beginnings informs every frame, from the machine-gun crackle of snappy banter smartly executed to meticulously choreographed pratfalls and comic fights to silent-movie-style intertitles.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
70
Nickelodeon is Bogdanovich's sweet funny homage to the days before World War I when America played with its new toy, the movies, in those converted storefronts or jerry-built pantheons where for a nickel you could enter the new magic darkness of electric centuryIn that flickering, faintly salacious darkness, a new innocence was born. [27 Dec 1976, p.56]
By Jack Kroll FULL REVIEW
50
It sounds promising, but Bogdanovich attempts an exercise in style, and the result is sustained clutter.
By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW
50
An attempt by director Bogdanovich to capture his great love of early movies in a full-length motion picture.
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50
Nickelodeon is two hours and two minutes of impersonations.Some of them are very good impersonations—deft and funny—but they lack a life to string them together.
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50
Bogdanovich is trying to do an interesting and commendable thing in dramatizing aesthetic passion; his failure is as noble as it is conspicuous.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
40
The direction is agonisingly pedantic for a comedy, and leaves O'Neal and Reynolds totally exposed, mugging away in charmless and clumsy fashion.
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Production Company British Lion Film Corporation, Columbia Pictures, EMI Films
Release Date Dec 21, 1976
Duration 2 h 1 m
Rating PG
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Tagline Dreams. 5 cents.
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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