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The man pitches an idea about a studio executive who kills a writer and gets away with murder. Impressed, Mill gives the writer a deal, if he can guarantee an ending in which the executive lives happily with the writer's widow. The writer's title for the film is The Player. Cast
Mill surmises that the disgruntled writer is David Kahane (Vincent D'Onofrio). Mill lurks around Kahane's home and is told by Kahane's girlfriend, June Gudmundsdottir (Greta Scacchi), whom he watches while talking to her on the phone, that Kahane is at a showing of 'The Bicycle Thief'.
The cinema, where paranoid studio exec Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) meets – and subsequently kills – David Kahane (Vincent D’Onofrio), the writer he thinks is sending death threats, is the the Rialto Theatre, 1023 South Fair Oaks Avenue, South Pasadena.
May 8, 1992 · The Player: Directed by Robert Altman. With Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg. A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?
- (66K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Robert Altman
- 1992-05-08
Mill receives a pitch over the phone from a man who reveals himself as the postcard writer. The man pitches an idea about a studio executive who kills a writer and gets away with murder. Mill recognizes the pitch as blackmail and gives the writer a deal. The writer’s title for the film is The Player.
A self-referential introduction to the world of make believe, the opening single take sequence to Robert Altman’s The Player is a formula-bending ode to a classic. Altman’s wonderful analog parlor patter follows the scenery as the storyline unfolds between storylines.
Robert Altman 's "The Player," which tells Griffin's story with a cold sardonic glee, is a movie about today's Hollywood -- hilarious and heartless in about equal measure, and often at the same time.
