The Player

Name: The Player
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1992
Duration: 124 min
Cast: Tim Robbins, Peter Gallagher, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg

Robert Altman19922h 4mCrime, Comedy, Drama

Why we chose it

Robert Altman’s barbed satire of how Hollywood really works opens with an eight-minute take of people arguing about long takes, and it won him Best Director at Cannes along with three Oscar nominations. Here the industry eats itself over a polite lunch.

Synopsis

Threatening postcards keep landing on the desk of Griffin Mill, a Hollywood studio man who hears dozens of film pitches a day and turns down nearly all of them. He decides the blackmailer must be one particular screenwriter and arranges to meet him after a screening. The evening doesn’t end well, and the next day another postcard arrives.