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Part of Weekend Classics: Altman at 100
Tim Robbins stars as sleek Hollywood studio executive Griffin Mill, who is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected — but which one? Director Robert Altman’s disdain for American studio film production is palpable in this widely entertaining indictment of the system, which was warmly received by audiences and the industry itself. In doing so, ironically enough, he was able to cast over 65 stars in fleeting cameos.
“THE PLAYER is a rare commodity. It's brilliant and a guilty pleasure. A subtle damning of things Hollywood, Robert Altman's seriocomedy slices its target with a thousand, imperceptible razor cuts. The bleeding comes almost subliminally, the pain disguised by the movie's soothing, L. A.-poolside manner…. As with Altman's NASHVILLE, the movie's a macro-portrait of a world gone deliriously bonkers — yet making a living anyway.” —Desson Howe, Washington Post (Apr 24, 1992) “This is material Altman knows from the inside and the outside. He owned Hollywood in the 1970s, when his films like MASH, McCABE & MRS. MILLER and NASHVILLE were the most audacious work in town. Hollywood cast him into the outer darkness in the 1980s, when his eclectic vision didn’t fit with movies made by marketing studies. Now he is back in glorious vengeance, with a movie that is not simply about Hollywood, but about the way we live now.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (Apr 24, 1992) “Mr. Altman's most subversive message here is not that it's possible to get away with murder in Hollywood, but that the most grievous sin, in Hollywood terms anyway, is to make a film that flops.” —Vincent Canby, New York Times (Apr 10, 1992)
