The Player
The Player is a 1992 American satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Michael Tolkin, based on his own 1988 novel of the same name. The film stars Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James and Cynthia Stevenson, and is the story of a Hollywood film studio executive who kills an aspiring screenwriter he believes is sending him death threats.
Plot
Griffin Mill is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow. He hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only twelve out of 50,000 submissions every year. His job is threatened when up-and-coming exec Larry Levy begins working at the studio. Mill has also been receiving death threat postcards, assumed to be from a screenwriter whose pitch he rejected.
Awards
Cast
- Adam Simon
- Alan Rudolph
- Andie m
- Anjelica Huston
- Annie Ross
- Bert Remsen
- Brad Davis
- Brian Tochi
- Brion James
- Bruce Willis
- Buck Henry
- Burt Reynolds
- Cathy Lee Crosby
- Cher
- Christopher Walken
- Cynthia Stevenson
- David Alan Grier
- Dean Stockwell
- Dennis Franz
- Dina Merrill
- Elliott Gould
- Felicia Farr
- Franco Nero
- Fred Ward
- Gary Busey
- Gina Gershon
- Greta Scacchi
- Harry Belafonte
- Jack Lemmon
- Jack Riley
- James Coburn
- Jayne Meadows
- Jeff Celentano
- Jeff Daniels
- Jeff Goldblum
- Jeremy Piven
- Jill St. John
- Joan Tewkesbury
- Joel Grey
- John Cusack
- Julia Roberts
- Karen Black
- Katarzyna Figura
- Kathy Ireland
- Kevin Scannell
- Leah Ayres
- Lily Tomlin
- Louise Fletcher
- Lyle Lovett
- Malcolm McDowell
- Marlee Matlin
- Michael Bowen
- Michael Tolkin
- Mimi Rogers
- Nick Nolte
- Patrick Swayze
- Paul Dooley
- Peter Falk
- Peter Gallagher
- Randall Batinkoff
- René Auberjonois
- Richard Anderson
- Richard E. Grant
- Robert Carradine
- Robert Wagner
- Rod Steiger
- Sally Kellerman
- Sally Kirkland
- Scott Glenn
- Shari Belafonte
- Stephen Tolkin
- Steve James
- Susan Sarandon
- Sydney Pollack
- Teri Garr
- Tim Robbins
- Vincent D'Onofrio
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Young MC
More details
| author | Michael Tolkin |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Robert Altman |
| editor | Geraldine Peroni |
| genre | comedy mystery |
| keywords | bicycle thieves botched robbery cinema of the united states date death threat end famous actor fax hollywood hot spring hotel bar isolated kill lineup meet new york new york city oscar bait oscar contender parking lot police lineup power play reject scream screenwriter spring studio executive the bicycle thief wait |
| musicBy | Thomas Newman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay |
| producer | David Brown Michael Tolkin Nick Wechsler |
| productionCompany | Addis-Wechsler Avenue Pictures David Brown Productions Spelling Entertainment |
| publisher | Fine Line Features |
| recordedAt | California Los Angeles Malibu |
| theme | black comedy filmmaking independent legal drama satirical |