The Player (1992)

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Academy Awards: Oscar won & 508 nominated
Won 21 awards & 16 nominations
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Year

1992

Runtime

2 h 4 min

Genres

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Country

United States

Director

Robert Altman

Writers

Michael Tolkin, Michael Tolkin

Plotline

A studio executive is being blackmailed by a writer whose script he rejected but which one? Loaded with Hollywood insider jokes.

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Starring

Tim Robbins

Greta Scacchi

Fred Ward

Whoopi Goldberg

Peter Gallagher

Main cast

Tim Robbins Griffin Mill

Greta Scacchi June Gudmundsdottir

Fred Ward Walter Stuckel

Whoopi Goldberg Detective Avery

Peter Gallagher Larry Levy

Brion James Joel Levison

Cynthia Stevenson Bonnie Sherow

Vincent D'Onofrio David Kahane

Dean Stockwell Andy Civella

Richard E. Grant Tom Oakley

Sydney Pollack Dick Mellon

Lyle Lovett Detective DeLongpre

Dina Merrill Celia

Angela Hall Jan

Leah Ayres Sandy

Paul Hewitt Jimmy Chase

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External critics' reviews

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.

This is the master at the top of his form, his erratic genius harnessed and everything clicking, everything flowing, a fresh creation from a mature artist. more

A modern classic. more

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. more

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. more

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. more

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. more

So entertaining, so flip and so genially irreverent that it seems to announce the return of the great gregarious film maker whose "Nashville" remains one of the classics of the 1970's. more

From its brilliant and sublime opening sequence to its self-reflexive ending, The Player distills everything that's wrong with the American film industry with the precision of someone who's been there. more

A hilarious and deftly convincing satire. more

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