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The Player(Movie, 1992)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 4min | Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
The PlayerRating: 3.6/5 (with 323323 votes)
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. The Player has many film references and Hollywood in-jokes, with 65 celebrities making cameo appearances in the film. Altman once stated that the f... ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Player

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

About The Player

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on: "The Player" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 24 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 07/02/1992 (World premiere: 04/03/1992)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"O paiktis"
"I Protagonisti"
"플레이어"
Budget: 8,000,000 USD
Revenue: 21,706,101 USD (= 271%)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:5320, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 03/12/2024