The Player
Short description
Griffin Mill is a Hollywood studio executive whose job is deciding which screenplays get made, which means turning down far more writers than he accepts. He begins receiving anonymous death threats from a rejected author, and he assumes he knows who is responsible. A meeting with the suspected writer ends in a struggle and a death, and Mill stages the scene to look like a robbery. He then becomes involved with the dead man's partner, an artist, while studio politics threaten his position and the threats keep arriving.
Robert Altman directed the film, the thirteenth of the twenty-one features listed for him in chronological order, arriving between Basements and Short Cuts. Michael Tolkin wrote the screenplay and produced alongside David Brown and Nick Wechsler. Tim Robbins plays Mill, with Greta Scacchi as June Gudmundsdottir, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher and Brion James in supporting roles, part of a credited cast of 109.
The film was released in May 1992 and runs 124 minutes, mixing comedy, crime, drama, mystery and thriller. Made for about 8 million dollars, it returned roughly 22 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.5 out of 10 from more than 64,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.2 from just under a thousand. A critics' rating of 8.7 from 68 reviews places it clearly above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The scene in which Jeff Daniels, dressed in a surgeon's gown, plays golf in a hospital, and the scene where Patrick Swayze demonstrates karate moves, were filmed but did not make it into the final cut of the film.
- At the moment when Griffin takes an umbrella out of his trunk to remove the snake thrown into the car, the reflection of the operator is visible on the car.
- Cameo appearances by stars were not planned. Altman included them in the film at his own discretion. The stars were not given any written dialogue during filming.
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