Fine Line Features | Release Date: April 3, 1992
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wranghamDec 22, 2011
This film is one of the best satires on Hollywood ever made. Only Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard beats it.
Tim Robbin's is a movie executive who screenwriters come to get there scripts made into films. When he starts receiving death threats
This film is one of the best satires on Hollywood ever made. Only Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard beats it.
Tim Robbin's is a movie executive who screenwriters come to get there scripts made into films. When he starts receiving death threats from a screenwriter he turned down in the past his life takes a dramatic turn for the worst.
The thriller plot is great but conversations about films overheard in the background of the movie are partly what make this a very interesting film to watch again and again. The main character murders someone in cold blood. Only a truly great filmmaker could make us care for him and take his side throughout. This film is a marvellously devilish satire.
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SpangleFeb 27, 2015
Directed by the legendary Robert Altman, The Player is a riveting tale of murder, suspense, and Hollywood, featuring stellar acting from a largely low-key cast (other than Tim Robbins, who isn't huge and wasn't at the time for sure). GreatDirected by the legendary Robert Altman, The Player is a riveting tale of murder, suspense, and Hollywood, featuring stellar acting from a largely low-key cast (other than Tim Robbins, who isn't huge and wasn't at the time for sure). Great direction and acting bolster this one greatly, but really, it is the fantastic writing that wraps it all up with a bow, as this one is the complete package. I find Hollywood and the behind the scenes stuff endlessly interesting, so this one is of course going to be in the wheelhouse, but I enjoyed the satirical tone of the film and how it blended with the serious elements of murder. The imagery and symbolism is also very cool here and worthy of mention, as it is those small elements that really make this one a cool watch. Very intriguing, slightly funny, and brilliantly put together, The Player is a winner. Expand
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Compi24May 5, 2018
Legendary director Robert Altman delivers a fittingly misanthropic and jet black glimpse into the abyss that can be (is?) Los Angeles and the Hollywood studio system with "The Player," a cleverly plotted and staged satire with a whole lot toLegendary director Robert Altman delivers a fittingly misanthropic and jet black glimpse into the abyss that can be (is?) Los Angeles and the Hollywood studio system with "The Player," a cleverly plotted and staged satire with a whole lot to say about the effects that the market can have on forms of creativity and the morality puzzles that can sometimes lie within. Interestingly, this film mirrors a couple of other films from the early 90's involving the same sort of subject matter - "Barton Fink" and "Swimming With Sharks." And while both of these films do different things well enough, I think if I'm to judge which actually functions the best as a soul-crushing jab at the infrastructural behemoth that is Hollywood, I'm going to have to side with "The Player." There's just something about the dire, thrilling, hilarious, romantic, and terrifying tones juggled all throughout this film that left me feeling pretty impressed. And the performances are all in order as well, with a terrific turn from Tim Robbins in particular. And though it's no "Gosford Park," it's definitely one of the more impressive Altman film's I've seen. Expand
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NasirShakurJul 21, 2021
An incredibly funny and potent satire on Hollywood which truly stands the test of time and quite possibly gets better with age.
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DeanomiteJan 29, 2020
This is a good satire, one of the best of late Altman, the relationship between Tim Robbins and Cynthia Stevenson. Not the best in any category but the time flew by.
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