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The Player
Following the struggles and adventures of Griffin, a young courageous and successful executive, whose life turns upside down, when he faces the blackmail of an aspiring screen writer, who seeks to take his position.
1930, Williston Park, New York, USA
2 December 1914, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
31 October 1941, New York City, New York, USA
10 May 1967, London, England, UK
5 March 1936, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 April 1958, Gaffney, South Carolina, USA
18 August 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 June 1956, Detroit, Michigan, USA
19 February 1952, New York City, New York, USA
11 December 1947, Lakewood, Ohio, USA
1 November 1957, Klein, Texas, USA
6 February 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 December 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 April 1936, Redlands, California, USA
1 June 1940, New York City, New York, USA
1 July 1934, Lafayette, Indiana, USA
2 August 1962, Piedmont, California, USA
20 March 1963, Glendale, California, USA
2 June 1937, Long Beach, California, USA
1 July 1939, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
4 October 1946, New York City, New York, USA
5 May 1957, Mbabane, Union of South Africa [now Swaziland]
22 September 1954, New York City, New York, USA
June 10, 2016
In "The Player," Altman creates a scathing satire of Hollywood - and then lets his satire itself gets seduced by Hollywood schmaltz. Because what better way to show how seductive it is?
June 03, 2016
Altman was making a sour, salient, cynical, and passionate point about how artistry and edge had been drained from Hollywood. By 1992, the suits were in charge.
June 05, 2016
One of the great motion pictures of the 1990s.
November 22, 2016
Noir masterpiece has nudity, lots of strong language.
June 08, 2016
Altman knew Hollywood, but The Player casts a much wider net by allowing the movie industry to stand in for the shark-eat-shark nature of modern business in general
May 20, 2003
Mr. Altman's most subversive message here is not that it's possible to get away with murder in Hollywood, but that the most grievous sin, in Hollywood terms anyway, is to make a film that flops.
November 04, 2016
The Player, which Altman made after years of struggle, with all Hollywood fascination worn away, is Altman's dour version of Dante's Inferno. His satire forces us to realize the obscenity of Clinton-era corruption - once again.
April 28, 2008
[It's] supposed to be scathing, but the pleasure it affords is like what you get from watching the Oscars: celebrity spotting and in-jokes.
June 06, 2001
[Altman] sticks it to every target, himself and us included, with a wicked zest that hurts only when you laugh.
January 01, 2000
The Player is a rare commodity. It's brilliant and a guilty pleasure.
October 23, 2004
A movie about today's Hollywood -- hilarious and heartless in about equal measure, and often at the same time.
April 28, 2008
Mercilessly satiric yet good-natured, this enormously entertaining slam dunk quite possibly is the most resonant Hollywood saga since the days of Sunset Blvd. and The Bad and the Beautiful.
