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Nick Nolte Films Viewed by Kathy

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7.3

Cape Fear (1991)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Joe Don Baker, Juliette Lewis, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Illeana Douglas, Fred Dalton Thompson and Martin Balsam

When attorney Sam Bowden knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady of rape charges, Max spends 14 years in prison. But after Max's release, discovering Sam's deceit, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the Bowden family. When practical attempts to stop Max fail, Sam realizes that he must act outside the law to protect his wife and daughter.

kathy's rating:

124

7.1

6.2

The Deep (1977)

Director: Peter Yates
Based on the novel by Peter Benchley
Starring: Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Eli Wallach, Dick Anthony Williams, Earl Maynard, Bob Minor, Teddy Tucker, Robert Tessier, Lee McClain and Colin Shaw

New Yorkers, David Sanders and Gail Berke are enjoying a much-needed vacation. While diving one day they discover the sunken wreck of a WWII freighter and unearth a gold coin as well as a mysterious glass ampule. Excited, they believe their discovery could be a long lost treasure but they soon learn that their most valuable discovery is actually an ampule of morphine, one of thousands left behind on the medical supply ship.

This discovery leads them into the hands of Henry Cloche, an extremely dangerous and powerful Haitian drug dealer who will stop at nothing to unearth the dangerous treasure. With the help of Romer Treece, an old treasure hunter, David and Gail soon realize that they have made a much more important discovery than the morphine and set out to keep their actual treasure a secret.

kathy's rating:

5.3

Death Sentence (1974)

kathy's rating:

Death Sentence (1974)

Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Laurence Luckinbill, Nick Nolte, Alan Oppenheimer, William Schallert, Yvonne Wilder, Herb Voland, Hope Summers, Peter Hobbs, Doreen Lang and Murray MacLeod

A murder-trial juror gradually begins to realise that the accused man is innocent and her own husband is guilty.

kathy's rating:

112

7.3

6.6

Extreme Prejudice (1987)

Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, María Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn, William Forsythe and Clancy Brown

When they were kids Texas Ranger Jack Benteen used to be best friends with drug kingpin Cash Bailey. At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack's girlfriend, Sarita, who used to be with Cash. She returns to Cash as a voluntary hostage to make certain that Jack keeps his hands off the drug lord's operation. On top of that, there is a meticulously planned drug bust in which both Jack and Cash butt heads with CIA-funded paramilitary Major Paul Hackett, following his own agenda.

kathy's rating:

4.8

5.4

A Few Days in September (2006)

Director: Santiago Amigorena
Starring: Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Sara Forestier, Tom Riley, Nick Nolte, Mathieu Demy, Saïd Amadis, Magne-Håvard Brekke, and Joël Lefrançois

A CIA agent disappears with important information and his former associate, a Frenchwoman, attempts to find him before a poetic psychopath can track her down.

kathy's rating:

900

6.3

6.7

Gangster Squad (2013)

Director: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Peña, Robert Patrick and Troy Garity

1949, Los Angeles: Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping his ill-gotten gains. The small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters, come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

kathy's rating:

1941

7.7

8.1

Hotel Rwanda (2004) (2005)

Director: Terry George
Starring: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Cara Seymour, Tony Kgoroge, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Leleti Khumalo, Antonio Lyons, Jean Reno and Mosa Kaiser

Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu, manages the Hôtel des Mille Collines and lives a happy life with his Tutsi wife and their three children. But when Hutu military forces initiate a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Tutsi minority, Paul is compelled to allow refugees to take shelter in his hotel. As the U.N. pulls out, Paul must struggle alone to protect the Tutsi refugees in the face of the escalating violence later known as the Rwandan genocide.

kathy's rating:

6.4

5.5

I'll Do Anything

Director: James L. Brooks
Starring: Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Joely Richardson, Tracey Ullman, Whittni Wright, Vicki Lewis, Anne Heche, Ian McKellen and Angela Alvarado

Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding relationship with attractive production assistant Cathy Breslow is made complicated, while the precocious child is overly accustomed to getting her own way. Matt eventually faces the choice of family vs career in a particularly difficult way.

kathy's rating:

5.7

Jefferson in Paris (1995)

Director: James Ivory
Starring: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simon Callow, Seth Gilliam, James Earl Jones, Michael Lonsdale, Nancy Marchand, Thandie Newton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Charlotte de Turckheim, Lambert Wilson and Anthony Valentine

A biography of Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became President. Jefferson is in Paris as the U.S. Ambassador to the court of Louis XVI. Following the death of his wife, the film charts Jefferson's friendships and flirtations with the French, his relationship with his daughters and his slaves from home - especially 15-year-old Sally Hemings - against the backdrop of the beginning of the French Revolution.

kathy's rating:

378

6.7

7.3

Lorenzo's Oil (1992) (1993)

Director: George Miller
Starring: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Kathleen Wilhoite, Margo Martindale, James Rebhorn, Jennifer Dundas and Laura Linney

Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate: five-year-old Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to the cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.

kathy's rating:

178

6.1

6.3

Mulholland Falls (1996)

Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Treat Williams, Jennifer Connelly, John Malkovich, Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Dern, Kyle Chandler, Ed Lauter, Louise Fletcher, Aaron Neville, William L. Petersen, Rob Lowe and Daniel Baldwin

In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

kathy's rating:

6.8

Under Fire (1983)

Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Masur and Ed Harris

Two American journalists covering the civil war in Nicaragua get personally involved in aiding the Sandinista revolutionaries.

kathy's rating:

6.2

6.4

A Walk in the Woods (2015)

Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Kristen Schaal, Nick Offerman, R. Keith Harris and Randall Newsome

When an aging travel writer sets out to hike the 2,100-mile-long Appalachian Trail with a long-estranged high school buddy, the duo learn that some roads are better left untraveled.

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8.3

8.4

Rich Man, Poor Man

Directors: Bill Bixby, David Greene and Boris Sagal
Based on the novel by Irwin Shaw
Starring: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Edward Asner, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Reed, William Smith, Gloria Grahame, Kim Darby, Bill Bixby, Fionnula Flanagan, Tim McIntire, Ray Milland, Lawrence Pressman, Talia Shire, Craig Stevens, Norman Fell, Lynda Day George, George Maharis, Murray Hamilton, Van Johnson, Dorothy Malone, Andrew Duggan, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Kay Lenz, Leigh McCloskey, Josette Banzet, Dick Butkus, Dick Sargent, Dennis Dugan, Harvey Jason, Julius Harris and Antony Carbone

An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.

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