Fast-paced, dizzyingly fun, and stocked with references to everything from
Touch of Evil (1958) to
The Bicycle Thief (1948),
Robert Altman’s
The Player (1992) is a tour-de-force satire about the wicked ways of Hollywood. When smooth-talking studio exec Griffin Mill (
Tim Robbins) angers a struggling writer, the two enter into a cat-and-mouse game that draws the former into a most unfortunate criminal mistake.
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