Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director (2024)

March. 26,2024

5.5

| Documentary

We all know Jack Nicholson the actor. But few know the history of Jack Nicholson the screenwriter, and especially Jack Nicholson the director. Nicholson's lifelong friend, filmmaker Henry Jaglom, reflects on the icon's behind-the-camera career, while film historian/filmmaker Daniel Kremer presents and analyzes the full scope of that history.

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Jack Nicholson as Self (archive footage)

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Henry Jaglom as Self

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Daniel Kremer as Narrator (voice)

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Reviews

StunnaKrypto

2024/03/26

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Tedfoldol

2024/03/27

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Rio Hayward

2024/03/28

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Ezmae Chang

2024/03/29

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.