Mimsy Review: The Player
Special features
| Cameo Guide | 6 |
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| Commentary Track | 4 |
| Deleted Scenes | 3 |
Whether or not you like this movie seems to depend solely on whether or not you take part in the movie industry. Insiders like it. Everyone else can give it a miss.
| Recommendation | Special Interests Only• |
|---|---|
| Director | Robert Altman |
| Writer | Michael Tolkin |
| Movie Rating | 3 |
| Transfer Quality | 8 |
| Overall Rating | 3 |
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The basic storyline is not very nice and thus has a lot of potential, most of it wasted. Tim Robbins plays a studio executive in a power struggle with a new co-worker. His job is to listen to writers sell their ideas, choose a tiny, tiny number of them, and work them up to and through filming. He’s a jerk to people below him (writers) and an ass-kisser to those above him. There are threats against his life. He decides to take pre-emptive action and kills the person he thinks is responsible. Police Detective Whoopi Goldberg is on his trail. He falls in love with his victim’s girlfriend. Blah blah blah. A nice twisty sort of ending but not really worth getting to.
Recommendation: Special Interests Only•
| Director | Robert Altman |
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| Writer | Michael Tolkin |
| Based on | The Player (book)• |
| Actor | Tim Robbins |
| Spoken languages | English, French |
| Subtitles | English, French, Spanish |
| Special Features | Cameo Guide, Commentary Track, Deleted Scenes |
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- The Player•
- Whether or not you like this movie seems to depend solely on whether or not you take part in the movie industry. Insiders like it. Everyone else can give it a miss.
- The Player (book)•: Michael Tolkin
- “Tolkin’s bemused view of Hollywood is curt and bloodless yet hardly original, but he does have a keen perception of its various battle strategies. ”
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