Still image from the 1992 film The Player.

The Player

Directed by Robert Altman

A rising producer tries to cover up the accidental killing of a screenwriter who was stalking him.

1992 2h 3m Comedy TV-MA

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CAST
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Robert Altman, Director
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Robert Altman
Director

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Tim Robbins, Griffin Mill
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Tim Robbins
Griffin Mill

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Greta Scacchi, June Gudmundsdottir
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Greta Scacchi
June Gudmundsdottir

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Fred Ward, Walter Stuckel
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Fred Ward
Walter Stuckel

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Rod Steiger, Himself
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Rod Steiger
Himself

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Randall Batinkoff,
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Randall Batinkoff

FULL SYNOPSIS

A frustrated screenwriter menaces a studio executive who eventually kills the writer and gets away with murder.


VIDEOS
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Nice Boat You Got There...
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She's Booked For The Next Two...
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Ben Mankiewicz Intro...
Hosted Intro
I Hope You Don't Remember Me...
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Ben Mankiewicz Intro...
Hosted Intro
Touch Of Evil
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ARTICLES
More than a decade after Popeye (1980), a big-budget film that was branded a flop by Hollywood despite turning a substantial profit, and after years "in the wilderness" directing stage plays, small independent films, and cable productions, iconoclastic filmmaker Robert Altman made a triumphant comeback with The Player. It was a sly, self-aware thriller set in the world of Hollywood studio filmmaking and a wry show business satire with an enormous supporting cast of major movie stars playing (and at times parodying) themselves, and it was embraced by audiences and critics alike. In retrospect it seems like a perfect match between director and material, the great anti-Hollywood filmmaker ("they sell shoes and I make gloves," was Altman's famous description of working within the system) directing a savage satire of the whole culture of modern moviemaking, but he was not the first choice. Producer David Brown had optioned the novel by Michael Tolkin, a screenwriter in his own right who channeled his frustrations of how the system kills the creative spirit into a story where a studio executive literally murders a writer, and sent Tolkin's script around. As directors passed or priced themselves out of contention it was eventually passed to Altman, who was busy trying to get his dream project, an adaptation of Raymond Carver stories with the working title "L.A. Short Cuts," off the ground. Altman had commitments from a number of actors but couldn't raise the financing so he too...

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