Synopsis
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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Cast
- Tim RobbinsGriffin Mill
- Greta ScacchiJune Gudmundsdottir
- Fred WardWalter Stuckel
- Whoopi GoldbergDetective Avery
- Peter GallagherLarry Levy
- Brion JamesJoel Levison
- Cynthia StevensonBonnie Sherow
- Vincent D'OnofrioDavid Kahane
- Dean StockwellAndy Civella
- Richard E. GrantTom Oakley
Recommendations
- 100
Time
Michael Tolkin's script abounds in such cynical wisdom, but it never loses an appreciation for the grace with which these snakes consume their victims. [13 April 1992] - 100
Washington Post
A rare commodity. It's brilliant and a guilty pleasure. A subtle damning of things Hollywood, Robert Altman's seriocomedy slices its target with a thousand, imperceptible razor cuts. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Remarkable also for the uniform excellence of its cast, and for the pleasure [Altman's] actors take in the wide berth he allows them. [24 Apr 1992] - 100
Rolling Stone
What makes The Player the best and boldest American comedy in years is Altman's wizardry at leavening anger with cathartic wit. He sticks it to every target, himself and us included, with a wicked zest that hurts only when you laugh -- and The Player keeps you laughing constantly. - 100
Chicago Tribune
What "M.A.S.H." did to service comedies, what "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" did to westerns, what "The Long Goodbye" did to detective pictures, The Player does the to Hollywood success story. [24 April 1992] - 100
Washington Post
The film, which begins with a single, gorgeously sustained eight-minute camera move, is blissfully out of touch with contemporary trends in moviemaking...surprising, both in style and narrative. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
The film is sublime entertainment, at once ticklish and suspenseful, cynical and sincere. By its very existence, Altman's comedy about the death of Hollywood lets you know that movies are still alive and kicking. - 90
Variety
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."
