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The Player

The life of a young successful executive writer, Griffin, who has a good life, has been changed completely, when faces the blackmail and challenge of an aspiring screenwriter who seeks to take his position.
Keywords:  #Brion James #Fred Ward #Greta Scacchi #Peter Gallagher #Robert Altman #The Player #Tim Robbins #Whoopi Goldberg
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Chicago Sun-Times
October 23, 2004
A movie about today's Hollywood -- hilarious and heartless in about equal measure, and often at the same time.
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Creative Loafing
June 05, 2016
One of the great motion pictures of the 1990s.
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Common Sense Media
November 22, 2016
Noir masterpiece has nudity, lots of strong language.
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Variety
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.
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Q Network Film Desk
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
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Washington Post
January 01, 2000
The Player is a rare commodity. It's brilliant and a guilty pleasure.
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Madison Movie
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?
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New York Times
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.
Rolling Stone
June 06, 2001
[Altman] sticks it to every target, himself and us included, with a wicked zest that hurts only when you laugh.
CraveOnline
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.
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National Review
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.
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Chicago Reader
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.
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