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The Player

Name: The Player
Director: Robert Altman
Genre: Comedy, Crime/detective, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1992
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

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Comedy
Crime/detective

1992
Robert Altman
119 mins
15

Summary

Hollywood satire starring Tim Robbins and Greta Scacchi. Griffin Mill is a film executive with problems: his job is in danger and he is receiving death threats. He suspects a spurned screenwriter of trying to ruin him, so sets out to find him. But as the threatening postcards continue to arrive and his position at the studio grows increasingly uncertain, Mill finds that solving the mystery is not as simple as he thought.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

From its masterly eight-minute opening crane shot to the final blockbuster pastiche, this swingeing satire is easily the best movie about Tinseltown since Sunset Blvd. With relish, director Robert Altman turns the spotlight on the industry hands that feed him and scores a bullseye on each target in Michael Tolkin's deft script. The temptation is to play spot the star, but don't let the galaxy of cameos from such celebrities as Bruce Willis, Julia Roberts and Cher distract from the gloriously cynical plot and a towering turn from a marvellously oily Tim Robbins. He merited at least an Oscar nomination for his performance as Griffin Mill, the high-flying studio executive who is troubled by poison-pen postcards from a discarded scriptwriter, the ambitions of wunderkind Peter Gallagher and the snooping of cop Whoopi Goldberg, who suspects him of murder. This is Hollywood at its worst told by Hollywood at its best.

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