The Player
Griffin Mill, a studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by rejecting his pitch. The writer is sending him threatening postcards. Drawn into a web of blackmail and murder, Griffin must evade the police investigation that he caused. But he must also watch his back, because in Hollywood, there';;s always another person to take your place.
17 October 1950, New York City, New York, USA
5 March 1936, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 June 1937, Long Beach, California, USA
27 September 1919, Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei, China
30 December 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
19 March 1955, Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
1 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA
6 November 1949, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
27 January 1956, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
8 July 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA
20 March 1963, Glendale, California, USA
24 August 1965, Morton Grove, Illinois, USA
18 February 1960, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
22 July 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
22 October 1952, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
16 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA
20 February 1945, Redlands, California, USA
2 May 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 May 1957, Mbabane, Union of South Africa [now Swaziland]
26 December 1921, New York City, New York, USA
16 October 1968, Monticello, New York, USA
20 May 1946, El Centro, California, USA
10 June 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 February 1952, New York City, New York, USA
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?
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.
January 01, 2000
The Player is a rare commodity. It's brilliant and a guilty pleasure.
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
November 22, 2016
Noir masterpiece has nudity, lots of strong language.
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.
October 23, 2004
A movie about today's Hollywood -- hilarious and heartless in about equal measure, and often at the same time.
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.
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.
June 06, 2001
[Altman] sticks it to every target, himself and us included, with a wicked zest that hurts only when you laugh.
June 05, 2016
One of the great motion pictures of the 1990s.
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.
