The Player (1992) movie poster

The Player (1992)

"Now More Than Ever!"
ThumbScore
👍 72%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 92%
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Director
Robert Altman
Runtime
2h 4m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.2/10 (925 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
86

Cast

Tim Robbins as Griffin Mill · 72% avg
Greta Scacchi as June Gudmundsdottir · 68% avg
Fred Ward as Walter Stuckel · 71% avg
Whoopi Goldberg as Detective Avery · 71% avg
Peter Gallagher as Larry Levy · 72% avg
Brion James as Joel Levison · 74% avg
Cynthia Stevenson as Bonnie Sherow · 70% avg
Vincent D'Onofrio as David Kahane · 73% avg

Is The Player good?

Most people think so. 72% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 92%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#395 / 750 · Mystery
Rank in its year
#64 / 74 · 1992
Rank among its director's films
#6 / 6 · Robert Altman

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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

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In Robert Altman's The Player (1992), The writer pitching The Graduate: Part II to Griffin Mill is a cameo by Buck Henry (as himself). Buck Henry co-wrote the screenplay for The Graduate (1967).
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