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The Player (1992)

Comedy | 124 minutes
3,46 507 votes

Genre: Comedy / Thriller

Duration: 124 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Robert Altman

Stars: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi and Whoopi Goldberg

IMDb score: 7,5 (67.287)

Releasedate: 3 April 1992

The Player plot

"Everything you've heard is true!"

Hollywood producer Griffin Mill receives threatening notes from an anonymous screenwriter who threatens to kill him. He tries to find out from whom the notes could come and comes across the name David Kahane. Mill tracks down Kahane, gets into a heated argument with him, before killing him. While the police are on his trail, the threatening notes keep coming...

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Ferdydurke

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Hurray for Hollywood!

Very fine satire full of false meanings, even more fun than I remember at the time, in which the smooth-headed and opportunists glory, and that one naive who suffers from integrity, comes home from a cold fair.

Altman has always had a knack for ráák, apparently superficially and almost silly, with a laconic casualness, and The Player is one of his most successful exercises in that regard.

The two speeches in the film—the one at the writer's funeral, painfully hilarious in its failure, and Mill's at that anniversary party, which is intertwined with lying clichés—are incredibly humiliating in their own way, and in that sense perhaps exemplary.

Of all the performances by famous actors, I thought Susan Sarandon was the most remarkable: she watched the execution in prison, three years before Dead Man Walking... directed by, what's-name- ie-also-again, oh yes, Tim Robbins

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Fisico (moderator films)

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Nice film where many celebrities pass in review in a guest role in a film within the film: sublime! The script is very well put together and beautifully carried by Tim Robbins. Nice to see the world of film productions and screenwriters come to the fore. Altman, who was labeled as one of the promising directors at the time and was allowed to set his foot next to Spielberg, De Palma, Scorcese, Coppola, puts down a very strong story here. Although the build-up is slow, it is profound.

Interesting to note how the whole situation seems to be turning against Griffin Mill , but as so often it works out well for white-collar criminals. I found the roles of police very weak, with Whoopi Goldberg as the low point. I couldn't really taste that scene at the police station and it was so unrealistically absurd. Altman may have had a specific intention, but it escaped me.

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