The Player (Criterion Collection)

Cast View all

	Tim Robbins	Griffin Mill
	Greta Scacchi	June Gudmundsdottir
	Fred Ward	Walter Stuckel
	Whoopi Goldberg	Detective Avery
	Peter Gallagher	Larry Levy
	Brion James	Joel Levison
	Cynthia Stevenson	Bonnie Sherow
	Vincent D'Onofrio	David Kahane
	Dean Stockwell	Andy Civella
	Richard E. Grant	Tom Oakley
	Sydney Pollack	Dick Mellen
	Lyle Lovett	Detective DeLongpre
	Dina Merrill	Celia
	Angela Hall	Jan
	Leah Ayres	Sandy
	Paul Hewitt	Jimmy Chase
	Randall Batinkoff	Reg Goldman
	Jeremy Piven	Steve Reeves
	Gina Gershon	Whitney Gersh
	Frank Barhydt	Frank Murphy
	Mike Kaplan	Marty Grossman
	Kevin Scannell	Gar Girard
	Margery Bond	Witness
	Susan Emshwiller	Detective Broom
	Brian Brophy	Phil

Crew View all

Director	Robert Altman
Writer	Michael Tolkin
Producer	Cary Brokaw, David Brown, Scott Bushnell, William S. Gilmore, David Levy, Michael Tolkin, Nick Wechsler
Musician	Thomas Newman
Photography	Jean Lépine

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Story Synopsis:
Based on Michael Tolkin’s novel and directed by Robert Altman, The Player is a clever satirical thriller about Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), a top studio executive and major Hollywood player, who looses control when he receives a series of threatening postcards from a mysterious screenwriter. Paranoia sets in deeply and Griffin hunts down the alleged mystery writer, murders him and quickly falls in love with the dead man’s girlfriend.


LaserDisc Picture:
The digital transfer at 1.85:1 is clear, soft, and bright, but the color balance is poor and inconsistent. A print rather than interpositive negative was used and no amount of tinkering could make it look right.


LaserDisc Soundtrack:
Although the soundtrack was recorded in Ultra Stereo® and mixed at Skywalker Sound, a THX dubbing theatre, it sounds mono.

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