Storyline
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Directors
Cast
Michael Bowen, Richard E. Grant, Elliott Gould, Anjelica Huston, Robert Wagner, Tim Robbins, Mimi Rogers, Patrick Swayze, Bruce Willis, Jeremy Piven, Ned Bellamy, Randall Batinkoff, Whoopi Goldberg, David Alan Grier, Malcolm McDowell, Fred Ward, Paul Dooley, Cynthia Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Susan Sarandon, Scott Glenn, Nick Nolte, Cher, Andie MacDowell, Jeff Goldblum, Dennis Franz, Karen Black, John Cusack, Martin Mull, Peter Falk, Sally Kirkland, Julia Roberts, Leeza Gibbons, Louise Fletcher, Peter Gallagher, Burt Reynolds, Teri Garr, Sydney Pollack, Buck Henry, Kathy Ireland, Annie Ross, Steve James, James Coburn, Gina Gershon, Rene Auberjonois, Harry Belafonte, Lily Tomlin, Rod Steiger, Gary Busey, Brion James, Lyle Lovett, Robert Carradine, Alexandra Powers, Michael Tolkin, Marlee Matlin, Ray Walston, Dean Stockwell, Greta Scacchi, Alan Rudolph, Jill St. John, Dina Merrill, Richard Anderson, Jack Lemmon, Brad Davis, Bert Remsen, Joel Grey, Sally Kellerman, Angela Hall, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Jennifer Nash
Trailer
Reviews
100
Time
Michael Tolkin's script abounds in such cynical wisdom, but it never loses an appreciation for the grace with which these snakes consume their victims. [13 April 1992]
100
Washington Post
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.
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Remarkable also for the uniform excellence of its cast, and for the pleasure [Altman's] actors take in the wide berth he allows them. [24 Apr 1992]
100
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.
100
Chicago Tribune
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. [24 April 1992]
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