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Everything you've heard is true!
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
The Player
1992 Directed by Robert Altman
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Tim Robbins Greta Scacchi Fred Ward Whoopi Goldberg Peter Gallagher Brion James Cynthia Stevenson Vincent D'Onofrio Dean Stockwell Richard E. Grant Sydney Pollack Lyle Lovett Dina Merrill Angela Hall Randall Batinkoff Jeremy Piven Gina Gershon Michael Tolkin Steve Allen Richard Anderson René Auberjonois Harry Belafonte Karen Black Michael Bowen Gary Busey Robert Carradine Cher James Coburn John Cusack Show All…
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Alternative Titles
O paiktis, I Protagonisti, 플레이어
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The Player is a Hollywood satire which, as all great satire does, looks less like satire today than it did when it was made.
Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill, a big studio producer worried about being pushed out of the business by younger talent. He's been receiving death threats via postcards from a writer he snubbed at some indeterminate point in his career. When he thinks he's found a lead, he goes out to investigate and ends up killing a writer. He is forced to cover up his crime while maintaining his position at the studio and juggling his budding romance with—of all people—his victim's widow.
And for the most part, Griffin Mill is a pretty sympathetic guy. We all…
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Robert Altman's critical yet sharp eye allows for an insightful look at an imprudent industry so often portrayed in a faux light. It's subversive and flawlessly written with a firm grasp on delivering biting commentary on the shark-eat-shark nature of showbiz. Yet after all of that, Altman never fails to continuously entertain; supplying some of his usual overlapping, fast-paced dialogue and audacious long takes that bring this merciless tale to another level. I had a helluva good time with this!
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i really should start checking if the film has nudity before i start watching it in the library and i look up from writing notes to see tim robbins with his dick out
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This satirical black comedy from Robert Altman is based on Michael Tolkin’s 1988 book and features compelling performances from all concerned. It concisely analyses the shiftlessness that has resulted in Hollywood manufacturing so many soulless productions, something which is even more pertinent now than ever before. It's a pointed harpooning of the Hollywood studio system, where executives aspire to manufacture movies consistent to what they believe audiences crave rather than what they genuinely want, and it's caustically hilarious.
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'Your Hollywood is dead.'
These are the words of a mystery-writer harassing a failing studio-exec, the validity of the comment laying weight to a perfectly disguised comedic veneer. From the opening snap of The Player's clapperboard, Altman is constantly challenging the limitations of criticism one can make on Tinseltown, grounding it with his most fluid and far-reaching camerawork. In supplements featured on the Criterion release, production-designer and son Stephen Altman talks openly about Altman's unique approach to the mind-boggling opening take:
- 'He had me build a model of our location-studio and he put a little crane in there, and he worked out how to make the opening of the movie a full ten-minute take. He would smoke a joint,…
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One of the better opening sequences out there and the finale’s filled with some incredibly satisfying moments, although everything in-between failed to grip me.
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