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The Game is a 1997 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger and James Rebhorn and produced by Propaganda Films and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. It tells the story of a wealthy investment banker who is given a mysterious birthday gift by his brother—participation in a ...
Sep 12, 1997 · The Game: Directed by David Fincher. With Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn. After a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- David Fincher
- 1997-09-12
Dan R David Fincher's 1997 psychological thriller, 'The Game', is one of Michael Douglas' best films of his career. SYNOPSIS: 'After a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity...
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Nicholas Van Orton (Douglas) is a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual birthday present from his estranged younger brother, Conrad (Penn). The gift enrols Nicholas in CRS (Consumer Recreation Services), a company that designs elaborate real-life games for each specific participant.
Sep 19, 1997 · Roger Ebert September 19, 1997. Tweet. Now streaming on: Rent. Buy. Subs. Powered by JustWatch. The opening scenes of "The Game'' show Michael Douglas as a rich man in obsessive control of his life. The movie seems to be about how he is reduced to humility and humanity--or maybe that's just a trick on him.
Don Phillips. The enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother (Sean Penn) on his forty-eighth birthday: a voucher for a game that, if he agrees to play it, will change his life.
Sep 12, 2017 · But The Game, Fincher's 1997 thriller starring Michael Douglas, was a necessary primer for Fight Club. With this film, Fincher took the actor who played Gordon Gekko ten years earlier, and he gave ...
