The Player

About The Player

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

Robert Altman's The Player is a 1992 mystery thriller film. It runs 124 minutes and was released in May 1992.

Its themes are hollywood, appreciative, blackmail, and baffled. The film began as a novel.

Tim Robbins appears as Griffin Mill, Greta Scacchi as June Gudmundsdottir, Fred Ward as Walter Stuckel, and Whoopi Goldberg as Detective Avery. The screenplay is by Michael Tolkin. Produced by Spelling Entertainment. In the United States it streams on Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV channel, and Criterion Channel.

Marley & Me, Sunset Boulevard, and Mank make useful companions to The Player, all filed under harsh. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 1,004 votes and it carries a R rating.