Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780780618565 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780618564 Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 16, 1997 Running Time: 124 minutes Sales Rank: 10149 Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: April 10, 1992
Product Description: 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
Amazon.com essential video: 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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Rating: - Gaping and yawning on the deserted sound stage
A parody of Hollywood, once more, Gosh. Nothing new will ever be done on that subject. It is a rattlesnake nest and nothing else. Only the details may change but the wider and the finer pictures are always the same. This particular film what's more is showing that everyone hates everyone and that everything is crooked and that all the every's you may think of are all berserk and warped. So what! What's the point? Is there a point? A no star film that ends up with stars. A bad ending that becomes good , they say happy, I know. An author who sells his skin for a million dollars. An exec that sells his soul for ten times more. Each million of those ten millions are extracted from the bones of one body turned into corpse. Morbid, morbid, morbid ! You kill someone and then within a week you make his girlfriend pregnant to compensate for the death and then you drop your own girlfriend because she is becoming too much of ... Read More
Rating: - A smart satire that hits its mark and wins my respect...
I know that I really need to see more Altman. I had only seen (up until this weekend) `Gosford Park' and `A Prairie Home Companion', neither of which really impressed me (I liked `Gosford Park'; didn't love it, and `A Prairie Home Companion' was just a mess) but I hear all these great things about him and so I keep telling myself that I need to just load up my Netflix queue with his work and have at it. Anyways, Saturday night I happened to catch `The Player' on IFC while I was up walking my daughter to sleep and since I do happen to enjoy Tim Robbins (magnificent actor) I decided to give it a try. I was immediately drawn in by the opening tracking scene consisting of interloping conversations (all of which were adlibbed) and from then on I was sold.
`The Player' is a satire, so keep that in mind when watching this movie. Satires have a tendency to do one of two extremes for me; they either really ... Read More
Rating: - Clever but shallow satire on Hollywood's dark side...
I'm not a Robert Altman fan but THE PLAYER ranks among the best of his crop of overpraised films. At least the performances are first rate without all the overlapping dialog that one had to endure in GOSFORD PARK, but the satire is laid on pretty thick even after the brutal accidental murder scene.
TIM ROBBINS plays a Hollywood producer who is unable to shake off the persistence of an aspiring writer without resorting to killing him in a moment of desperation and anger. He gets control of himself thereafter and is able to play innocent, especially after a line-up of suspects including him fails to produce a witness who could identify him as being near the scene of the crime.
The biggest in-joke of all is Altman's decision to have a marathon lineup of stars on the sidelines, popping up at every other moment when least suspected, and often with no more than a few seconds of screen time. The ... Read More
Rating: - Altman taking on Hollywood
Robert Altman, director known for his artistic sensibility is taking on old-fashioned Hollywood, where the success of the films is defined by the happy endings and household name actors featured in them. This story features successful Hollywood executive whose job it is to listed to writer's pitches, hoping for the next big movie hit. He has it all, place in the fancy restaurant, pretty girlfriend and crowds of screenwriters in his office hoping to sell his studio their screenplays. He is also threatened by the newcomer in the business that may as well force him out of job. As that is not enough, this executive is recipient of the threatening postcards from the writer with a grudge. As the unexpected turn of events unfold, we get ourselves wrapped in a story of survival of this same excutive. He is fighting for his job, for his life out of imprisonment for life and for the new girlfriend that shares his secret ... Read More
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- A smart satire that hits its mark and wins my respect...
- Clever but shallow satire on Hollywood's dark side...
