Wolf (1994)
Directed by Mike Nichols
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself full of youthful vigor. As he struggles to regain his position, he becomes enthralled with Laura Alden, his former boss's daughter. And, as increasingly animal-like urges begin to overwhelm him, Randall worries that he may be turning into the creature that bit him.
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No less a figure than Mike Nichols likewise failed to stick the landing in his revisionist 1994 take on the subgenre, Wolf.
Whannell’s film owes more to John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London, Mike Nichols’ Wolf and Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers…
Mike Nichols’ “Wolf” was seductively bizarre enough to work on its own terms…
Then again, director Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III, Jumanji) is strictly a meat-and-potatoes type of filmmaker, not an ofttimes brilliant artist like Coppola, Nichols or Branagh, and it’s safe to state that the demands of The Wolfman were simply out of his range.
Like Nichols, Mendes gives off a whiff of exhausting, smart-ass cleverness (seen in Nichols’s Wolf , Regarding Henry , and Charlie Wilson’s War ).
It's ironic and encouraging to find that, after years of making so-so movies like Wolf, The Birdcage and Regarding Henry, 73-year-old Mike Nichols has made one of the most daring films of the year.