The Player
Summary:
Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a disgruntled writer because he has committed the ultimate Hollywood sin -- he promise... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Tim Robbins - (Griffin Mill)
Greta Scacchi - (June Gudmundsdottir)
Fred Ward - (Walter Stuckel)
Whoopi Goldberg - (Det. Susan Avery)
Peter Gallagher - (Larry Levy)
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Review:
Half the fun of The Player is watching director Robert Altman and screenwriter Michael Tolkin repeatedly and enthusiastically bite the hands that feed them -- or, in Altman's case, stopped feeding him: it was his first film for an American studio in seven years, marking his commercial and critical comeback after some interesting but incons... Continue >>
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