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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Robert Altman
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Actors:
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Brion James,
Dean Stockwell,
Tim Robbins,
Greta Scacchi,
Fred Ward,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Peter Gallagher,
Cynthia Stevenson,
Vincent D'Onofrio,
Richard E. Grant
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Duration:
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124 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)126.5
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Plot Summary:
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A studio script screener gets on the spoiled side of a writer by means of not accepting his hand. The journo is sending him minatory postcards. The screener tries to place the writer in order to pay him off so he'll be left unattended, and then in a case of amiss identity gone awry, he accidentally gives the writer complete ammunition for make. This plot is written on a backdrop of low-class Hollywood deals and a number of subplots involving the politics of the industry.
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The Player
"...So entertaining, so furious and so genially profane that it seems to announce the return of the expert gregarous smokescreen maker....The members of the huge cast seem to be having a great night out cold on the town..."
The Player
Properly, given the self-obsessed countryside of the skin enterprise, Hollywood has been turning the camera on itself on the verge of since movies began. That reflexive tendency evolved into a variety in it own right in the 1970s and 1980s, when S.O.B., Swimming With Sharks, Bowfinger and The Notable Envisage all attempted to winch the industry on its own petard. Towering over these granting is M*A*S*H boss Robert Altman's The Player, a fog lent unexpectedly charge beside the fact that Altman, feted in the 1970s, had by 1992 been in the wilderness for over a decade and was clearly ready to get his teeth about the hand that hadn't been feeding him. Adapted by Michael Tolkin from his own novel, Tim Robbins stars as Griffin Mill, a studio execu...
The Player
"...What makes THE PLAYER the tucker and boldest American comedy in years is Altman's wizardry at leavening anger with cathartic wit..."
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