Mickey One

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Mickey One

1965,

1h 33m,

Crime/

Drama

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71%

7 Reviews

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52%

100+ Ratings

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Stand-up comic Mickey One (Warren Beatty) is fearful that the gambling debts he amassed have made him a marked man in the Detroit clubs that he frequents. Assuming a false identity, Mickey flees to Chicago, where he cautiously resumes his career at the upscale Club Xanadu. When club owner Ed Castle (Hurd Hatfield) offers Mickey a shot at auditioning for an unknown man with reputed connections in the Midwest, the increasingly paranoid Mickey fears that the mob has finally closed in on him.

Nick Pinkerton

Village Voice

Nov 12, 2008

West Chicago has never been more lunar and rapturously stark than as filmed by Ghislain Cloquet for Penn's Mickey One.

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Richard Whitehall

Los Angeles Free Press

Feb 3, 2020

Is it Penn's best movie? I'm tempted to think so.

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Dwight MacDonald

Esquire Magazine

Aug 13, 2019

Mr. Penn seems to think that by keeping it ambiguous, he can roam more freely on both planes, reality and fantasy. But the confusion -- are we inside or outside of Mickey's head? -- is merely confusing.

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Ray Pride

Newcity

May 21, 2019

10/10

Cold and strange and alien, yet its absurdism, which fits no era except whatever moment you're watching it in, is a compelling phantasm Chicago that presumes you're guilty until presuming you're ready to die.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Feb 26, 2012

B-

Flawed (it's A bit artsy and pretentious), but full of interesting ideas and characters, this collaboration between star Warren Beatty and director Arthur Penn precedes by two years Bonnie and Clyde, their masterpiece.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Apr 9, 2009

C

Pretentious art film that lacks the power to hold the viewer's attention.

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Synopsis

Stand-up comic Mickey One (Warren Beatty) is fearful that the gambling debts he amassed have made him a marked man in the Detroit clubs that he frequents. Assuming a false identity, Mickey flees to Chicago, where he cautiously resumes his career at the upscale Club Xanadu. When club owner Ed Castle (Hurd Hatfield) offers Mickey a shot at auditioning for an unknown man with reputed connections in the Midwest, the increasingly paranoid Mickey fears that the mob has finally closed in on him.

Director: Arthur Penn
Producer: Arthur Penn
Screenwriter: Alan M. Surgal
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Co: Florin, Tatira
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 27, 1965, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 18, 2014
Runtime: 1h 33m
Sound Mix: Mono

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