- The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)
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Actors: Robbins, Tim - Scacchi, Greta - Ward, Fred - Whoopi Goldberg. Director: Altman, Robert. Format: DVD. Format Size: Widescreen. Runtime: 123 mins. Language: English. Subtitle: English Subtitles. Discs: 1. Rating: R. Genre: Comedy. Subgenre: Drama. Release Year: 1992. When callous movie studio executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) starts receiveing anonymous death threats from a rejected screenwriter, his already shaky career begins to crumble. Finally, his desperation drives him to kill... but did he rub out the wrong writer. Relentlessly hounded by a street-wise detective (Whoopi Goldberg), Griffinn falls reckessly in love with the dead man's girlfriend (Greta Scacchi). Then the mysterious threats begin again-and Griffin is plunged into a plot more outrageous than any movie.
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Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a disgruntled writer because he has committed the ultimate Hollywood sin - he promised the writer he would call him back and he never did. This is particularly ironic because the studio executive, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), is considered "writer-friendly," spending his days listening to pitches from such noted screenwriters as Buck Henry, who is pushing "The Graduate, Part II" and Alan Rudolph, who is hawking a Bruce Willis action film described as "Ghost meets The Manchurian Candidate." But The Player finds Griffin's comfortable life style in danger of collapse. He is trying to find a way to unload his girlfriend (Cynthia Stevenson) whose independence and intelligence make her a poor candidate for a trophy wife. More importantly, it seems that Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher), a slippery executive from Twentieth Century Fox, is angling for his job. And then there are those nasty postcards and faxes from a screenwriter threatening to kill him. Altman cast over 65 stars in cameo roles as texture for his scabrous tale. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi