Mickey One

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NR,1hr 33min
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January 1, 1965
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Synopsis: Often described as a French New Wave film made in Hollywood, Arthur Penn's 1965 art movie enters the unsettlingly paranoid world of a nightclub comic on the run from the Mob. Having fooled around with the wrong blonde and gambled himself into an unpayable debt, an entertainer (Warren Beatty) flees to Chicago, where he hides out and changes his name to Mickey One. He hooks up with Jenny (Alexandra Stewart) and Castle (Hurd Hatfield), the owner of the nightclub Xanadu, but he cannot shake the paralyzing ... Full Synopsis
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Eschewing any semblance of conventional Hollywood narrative, Arthur Penn and writer Alan Surgal present a world skewed through Mickey's neuroses, putting viewers in the position of his unease and uncertainty. Steeped in New Wave devices like abrupt editing and jittery location shooting, Mickey One evades easy answers to the main character's psychological dilemma in favor of disjointed actions and evocative ... Full Review
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