The Player
The life of a young successful executive writer, Griffin, who has a good life, has been changed completely, when faces the blackmail and challenge of an aspiring screenwriter who seeks to take his position.
30 June 1956, Detroit, Michigan, USA
August 25, 1927 in Silver, South Carolina, USA
5 May 1957, Mbabane, Union of South Africa [now Swaziland]
8 February 1941, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
30 December 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
11 December 1947, Lakewood, Ohio, USA
1 July 1934, Lafayette, Indiana, USA
1 June 1940, New York City, New York, USA
16 October 1968, Monticello, New York, USA
24 March 1954, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 August 1928, Laurel, Nebraska, USA
28 October 1967, Smyrna, Georgia, USA
9 February 1953, Miami, Florida, USA
22 October 1952, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1 November 1957, Klein, Texas, USA
30 June 1959, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
November 29, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA
19 March 1955, Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
2 May 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 February 1925, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
26 January 1941, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
29 August 1938, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
10 February 1930, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA
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 05, 2016
One of the great motion pictures of the 1990s.
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 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.
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 22, 2016
Noir masterpiece has nudity, lots of strong language.
June 06, 2001
[Altman] sticks it to every target, himself and us included, with a wicked zest that hurts only when you laugh.
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?
October 23, 2004
A movie about today's Hollywood -- hilarious and heartless in about equal measure, and often at the same time.
January 01, 2000
The Player is a rare commodity. It's brilliant and a guilty pleasure.
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.
