Mike Nichols’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Mike Nichols has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Graduate.
Recurring themes

Leap of Faith
1992
Comedy · Drama

The Good Girl
2002
Drama · Comedy

Solitary Man
2009
Comedy · Drama

Delirious
2007
Comedy · Drama

The Wackness
2008
Drama · Comedy

Chaos Theory
2008
Comedy · Drama

Love Aaj Kal
2009
Comedy · Drama

The Watermelon Woman
1997
Drama · Comedy

The Graduate
1967 · Movie · Director
Top 6%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Wit
2001 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 27%Max · Included

Wolf
1994 · Movie · Director
Top 38%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Movie · Director
Top 40%Hulu · Included

Regarding Henry
1991 · Movie · Director
Top 50%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Carnal Knowledge
1971 · Movie · Director
Top 62%Tubi · Free w/ ads

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Emma Thompson, Audra McDonald, Jonathan M. Woodward

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes a risky chance to reclaim it by impersonating him and running the project from his position.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver
An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin

A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern

Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton
A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. The alien ends up falling in love while a suspicious FAA agent tails him.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, John Goodman