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.
November 29, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA
29 June 1944, Goose Creek, Texas, USA
22 October 1952, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
27 September 1919, Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei, China
2 December 1914, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
29 December 1923, New York City, New York, USA
1930, Williston Park, New York, USA
29 August 1938, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
22 March 1962, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
2 August 1962, Piedmont, California, USA
21 April 1958, Gaffney, South Carolina, USA
24 March 1954, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 January 1956, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
22 September 1954, New York City, New York, USA
30 December 1942, San Diego, California, USA
1 June 1940, New York City, New York, USA
13 November 1955, New York City, New York, USA
11 April 1932, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
19 February 1952, New York City, New York, USA
9 February 1953, Miami, Florida, USA
24 May 1960, New Jersey, USA
31 August 1928, Laurel, Nebraska, USA
18 August 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA
November 22, 2016
Noir masterpiece has nudity, lots of strong language.
October 23, 2004
A movie about today's Hollywood -- hilarious and heartless in about equal measure, and often at the same time.
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.
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.
June 06, 2001
[Altman] sticks it to every target, himself and us included, with a wicked zest that hurts only when you laugh.
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
June 05, 2016
One of the great motion pictures of the 1990s.
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?
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.
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.
