The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)

The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)
by Robert Altman

The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)
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Actor: Fred Ward, Greta Scacchi, Peter Gallagher, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Robert Altman
Producer: Cary Brokaw
Producer: David Brown
Producer: David Levy
Producer: Michael Tolkin
Writer: Michael Tolkin
Producer: Nick Wechsler
Producer: Scott Bushnell
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-07-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video

Movie Reviews of The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)

Movie Review: "IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT, GRIFF..."
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of my all-time favorite films, a scathing, paced look at inside Hollywood that deciphers the netherworld of studio execs, producers, directors, actors and, most importantly, those over-abused prostitutes of the industry, screenwriters. Tim Robbins is Griffin Mill - smarmy, corporate and slick as cat manure on a vinyl floor. Robert Altman brought in an array of big names to lend this film their aura. Everybody was in it. Buck Henry pitches the best film idea that never happened, "The Post-Graduate", which is the sequel to "The Graduate".
Grif is getting poison pen mail and he explores it a little too much, leading him to an art house in Pasadena where he accidentally kills a teed-off scribe, then into the man's ice queen girlfriend. Plot twists and studio politics intersect, and Whoopi Goldberg is insane as the cop who knows Grif got away with murder, which he does.
There is no morality, just cold-hearted realpolitik. Do not miss Altman's interview at the end. Like "Sunset Boulevard", this one captivated and irritated this closed industry which still believes its press releases. Robbins is as good as it gets. This is sex and power, the ultimate aphrodisiac.
The plot twist that ends it is one of the best ever devised, with Grif and his blackmailer suddenly co-producers "if the price is right..."
As Matthew says in the Bible, "what does a man profit if he has the world but loses his soul?"

Summary of The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)

When a callous movie executive starts receiving anonymous death threats from a rejected screen writer his alrady shaky career begins to crumble. Finally his desperation drives him to kill but did he rub out the wrong writer? Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Tim Robbins Greta Scacchi Run time: 124 minutes Rating: R Director: Robert Altman
A wicked satirical fable about corporate backstabbing--and actual murder--in the movie business, The Player benefits from director Robert Altman's long and bitter experience working within, and without, the Hollywood studio system. Rising young executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is tormented by threats from an anonymous writer. The pressure and paranoia build until Griffin loses control one night and semi-accidentally kills screenwriter David Kahane (Vincent D'Onofrio), who may or may not be the source of the threats. From that point, Griffin's life and career begin to fall apart. In keeping with the ironic spirit of the film itself, Altman's scathingly funny attack on the moral bankruptcy of Hollywood was embraced by many of the same people it was intended to savage, and restored the director to commercial and critical favor. Michael Tolkin adapted the screenplay from his own novel, and the movie is studded with cameos by famous faces, many of whom appear as themselves. The digital video disc includes a commentary track with Altman and Tolkin, some deleted scenes, a documentary about Altman, and a key to help identify more than 50 of the picture's big-name cameos. --Jim Emerson

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