
Mr Nice is the true life story of Howard Marks who was born into a coal mining family in South Wales in 1940's and then made it to Oxford University to study nuclear physics during the swinging sixties. With the help of fellow students, Marks built a worldwide marijuana smuggling network which became responsible for the majority of the drug smoked in the Western world during the 1970s and 1980s. Marks' adventures led him to have dealings with the CIA, PLO, IRA and the Mafia a... (Full plot summary below)
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Mr Nice is the true life story of Howard Marks who was born into a coal mining family in South Wales in 1940's and then made it to Oxford University to study nuclear physics during the swinging sixties. With the help of fellow students, Marks built a worldwide marijuana smuggling network which became responsible for the majority of the drug smoked in the Western world during the 1970s and 1980s. Marks' adventures led him to have dealings with the CIA, PLO, IRA and the Mafia and he even became an MI6 agent himself for a period. Howard Marks is played by the brilliant Rhys Ivans, who won much acclaim for his portrayal of the folk hero.
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| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumWriter-director Bernard Rose lets the picture bop along a little too loosely, but the vibes are good. |
| Paste MagazineSean Gandertwhat Mr. Nice offers is a stylish and fascinating biography that, while perhaps playing loose with the facts, knows that it's far more entertaining to watch the highs than the lows. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceWe're always ready to accept Ifans as a hedonistic daredevil. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThere's too much narration and too many drug-movie cliches. |
| Daily Mirror (UK)David EdwardsDirected by Bernard Rose, it's a cleverly assembled character study with a decent turn from Ifans, a seatof-your-pants plot and some nicely observed period detail. |
| New York PressArmond WhiteThewlis' great talent has been MIA since Mike Leigh's 1993 Naked but here he delivers a caricature of British cultural audacity that is so outrageously vivid it deserves the term Dickensian. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineAt the centre Ifans delivers a magnetic, robust performance that's both funny and surprisingly introspective |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)I'd recommend the similar "Blow" first, and I didn't even like that movie much. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittI'd recommend the similar "Blow" first, and I didn't even like that movie much. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohDrug dealer biopic wants to be a fun ride but is undone by hipper-than-thou direction and a maddeningly opaque central performance by Rhys Ifans. |