Country: UK, Spain
Year: 2009
Duration: 121'
mr nice Mr Nice is the favorite false name out of the 43 different ones which Howard Marks used to cover his tracks during the years he ran his empire which, through 25 front companies and 89 different phone numbers, oversaw marijuana smuggling between Pakistan and Canada, Thailand and the USA, and Hong Kong and Holland. He graduated in nuclear physics from Oxford but became impatient with the monotonous life of a professor. Thus, Marks soon wins the respect of local traffickers and lays the foundation for an empire through which he even weaves relations with the CIA, escaping various sentences until his arrest in 1988. “Mr Nice is the Lawrence of Arabia of drug movies, but it is neither ‘for’, or ‘against’, drugs. It merely tells, as truthfully as possible, Howard’s story and the story of marijuana, showing both the exhilaration and the chaos he left in his wake. As it says on the book: ‘He was Britain’s most wanted man. He has just spent seven years in America’s toughest penitentiary. You’ll like him’. He’s Mr Nice.”
Biography
film director
Bernard Rose
Bernard Rose (London, United Kingdom, 1960) began directing Super8 films at an early age and in 1975 won a competition organized by the BBC for amateur directors. He graduated in 1982 from the National Film and Television School and directed numerous video clips, including the censored version of Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, before moving on to directing for TV, working on various TV films and series for the BBC. In 1988, he directed his first cinematographic feature film, Paperhouse, which won the Golden Raven at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film. After his great success in 1992 with Candyman, he wrote and directed various costume movies, including Immortal Beloved (1994) and Anna Karenina (1997).
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Smart Money (tv, 1986), Body Contact (tv, 1987), Paperhouse (La casa ai confini..., 1988), Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (Chicago Joe, 1990), Candyman (Candyman - Terrore dietro lo specchio, 1992), Immortal Beloved (Amata immortale, 1994), Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina, 1997), Ivansxtc (2000), Snuff-Movie (2005), The Kreutzer Sonata (2008), Mr Nice (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia/director, screenplay, cinematography
Bernard Rose
soggetto/story
dall’omonima autobiografia di/from the autobiography of the same title by Howard Marks
montaggio/film editing
Teresa Font, Bernard Rose
scenografia/production design
Max Gottlieb
costumi/costume design
Caroline Harris
musica/music
Philip Glass
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Rhys Ifans (Howard Marks), Chloë Sevigny (Judy Marks), David Thewlis (Jim McCann), Omid Djalili (Malik), Elsa Pataky (Ilze), Luis Tosar (Lovato), Crispin Glover (Ernie Combs), Christian McKay (Mac)
produttore/producer
Luc Roeg
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Independent
coproduttori/coproducers
Mark Albela, Denise O’Dell
.jpg)
.jpg){kind=link}
