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The Player
Griffin Mill, a studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by rejecting his pitch. The writer is sending him threatening postcards. Drawn into a web of blackmail and murder, Griffin must evade the police investigation that he caused. But he must also watch his back, because in Hollywood, there';;s always another person to take your place.
30 June 1959, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
30 June 1956, Detroit, Michigan, USA
19 August 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 March 1926, Hammondsport, New York, USA
21 June 1953, Houston, Texas, USA
22 July 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
22 October 1952, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
5 May 1957, Mbabane, Union of South Africa [now Swaziland]
6 February 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 February 1930, Detroit, Michigan, USA
23 January 1962, Nassau County, New York, USA
20 May 1946, El Centro, California, USA
19 August 1955, New York City, New York, USA
8 August 1926, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
18 August 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 October 1967, Smyrna, Georgia, USA
29 June 1944, Goose Creek, Texas, USA
9 February 1953, Miami, Florida, USA
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.
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
June 06, 2001
[Altman] sticks it to every target, himself and us included, with a wicked zest that hurts only when you laugh.
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.
November 22, 2016
Noir masterpiece has nudity, lots of strong language.
June 05, 2016
One of the great motion pictures of the 1990s.
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.
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?
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
[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.
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.