Movies starring Jack Nicholson

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About Schmidt

When you're young, you live your life looking forward. The future looms larger and more full of promise than the past, and everyone not afflicted with incurable pessimism believes that the best is yet to come. But all things age, and die, and wit...

Run Time: 2:04
U.S. Release Date: 2002-12-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, ...
As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets is a perfect Christmas release, not because the story takes place during the Yule season, but because many of the plot elements are straight out of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. There's more than just a little Scrooge in M...

Run Time: 2:18
U.S. Release Date: 1997-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, ...
Batman

The superheroes of DC Comics have been very good to Warner Brothers. In 1978, Superman became a major motion picture event, packing theaters and resulting in a franchise that generated three sequels before collapsing under the weight of bad writin...

Run Time: 2:06
U.S. Release Date: 1989-06-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, ...
Bucket List, The

Lately, it seems every time I review a Rob Reiner movie, I lament the fall this once reliable filmmaker has taken. Admittedly, Reiner started at such a pinnacle that there was nowhere to go but down, but it's beyond consideration that the director...

Run Time: 1:37
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, ...
Chinatown

Chinatown is unquestionably one of the best films to emerge from the 1970s, a period that has been called the "last great decade of American cinema" by more than one movie critic. The production, which went in front of the cameras without a final ...

Run Time: 2:11
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, ...
Departed, The

The Departed is a perfect example of why remakes shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. Director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter William Monahan have taken the B-grade Hong Kong crime flick Infernal Affairs and re-imagined it as an American epic tra...

Run Time: 2:29
U.S. Release Date: 2006-10-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, ...
How Do You Know

James L. Brooks' movies have often been characterized by a rambling quality, and nowhere has that been more evident than in How Do You Know, the closest he has come to a conventional romantic comedy. The problem with the film has little to do with ...

Run Time: 1:54
U.S. Release Date: 2010-12-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, ...
Mars Attacks!

What do you get if you use Tim Burton, the inspired and irreverent director of Batman and Ed Wood, to combine an invasion force of bug-eyed, big-brained Martians, a star-studded cast featuring some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and a huge spec...

Run Time: 1:47
U.S. Release Date: 1996-12-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/COMEDY
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Paul Winfield, Danny DeVito, ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Arguably, some of the issues addressed by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are not as relevant in 2006 as they were in the mid-1970s, but that realization in no way diminishes the film's dramatic impact. This was the second English language film fo...

Run Time: 2:13
U.S. Release Date: 1975-11-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Marya Small, Louisa Mortiz, ...
Shining, The

The Shining is a curious motion picture. On the one hand, as a ghost story and adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it's largely a failure. On the other hand, as an example of directorial bravura and as a study of madness and the unreliable narr...

Run Time: 2:25
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, ...