Mr. Nice
43 Aliases. 89 Phone Lines. This is the Story of Howard Marks.
43 Aliases. 89 Phone Lines. This is the Story of Howard Marks.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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2010
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Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
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Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
121 min
Release date:
7 Oct 2010
Country:
ES, GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$850,994
Awards:
2 wins.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Effortlessly captures the looks, attitudes and the various mentalities of the period from the late 1960s and early 1970s, through the transition from the hippie era into the Studio 54 days, followed by the Just-Say-No retrenchment of the 1980s.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 Jun 2011
rotten:
[Ifans] captures the character's charisma and cool, and it's fun to ride shotgun with him. But the script isn't pointed enough to drill beneath the surface.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
29 Jul 2011
rotten:
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.
– Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe,
8 Sep 2011
fresh:
The writer-director tells the story with verve and small-budget ingenuity.
– Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post,
9 Sep 2011
fresh:
Though the film takes a while to cast its spell, writer-director-cinematographer Bernard Rose's close observation of Marks and those around him becomes increasingly involving and allows Rose to comment on the widespread failure of the war on drugs.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Sep 2011