Jack Nicholson (1973), "Terms of Endearment" (1983), "As Good as It Gets" (1997), "About Schmidt" (2002), and "The Bucket List" (2007); the neo-noir mystery "Chinatown" (1974); the horror film "The Shining" (1980); the biopic "Reds" (1981); the fantasy comedy "The Witches of Eastwick" (1987); the superhero film "Batman" (1989) as the Joker; the legal drama "A Few Good Men" (1992); the romantic horror film "Wolf" (1994); the science fiction comedy "Mars Attacks!" (1996); the comedy "Anger Management" (2003); the romantic comedy "Something's Gotta Give" (2003); and the crime drama "The Departed" (2006). Nicholson has not acted in a film since "How Do
Jack Nicholson but it wasn't what I'd call traumatizing ... I was pretty well psychologically formed". Nicholson grew up in Neptune City, New Jersey. He was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic religion. Before starting high school, his family moved to an apartment in Spring Lake, New Jersey. "When Jack was ready for high school, the family moved once more—this time two miles (three kilometres) farther south to old-money Spring Lake, New Jersey's so-called Irish Riviera, where Ethel May set up her beauty parlor in a rambling duplex at 505 Mercer Avenue." "Nick", as he was known to his high school friends,