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The Game (1997)
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Actors: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat
Directors: David Fincher
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English, German
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region 1 U.S. and Canada only.
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: R
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Release Date: August 27, 2002
Run Time: 128 minutes
ASIN: B000069HZP
It's not quite as clever as it tries to be, but The Game does a tremendous job of presenting the story of a rigid control freak trapped in circumstances that are increasingly beyond his control. Michael Douglas plays a rich, divorced, and dreadful investment banker whose 48th birthday reminds him of his father's suicide at the same age. He's locked in the cage of his own misery until his rebellious younger brother (Sean Penn) presents him with a birthday invitation to play "The Game" (described as "an experiential Book of the Month Club")--a mysterious offering from a company called Consumer Recreation Services. Before he knows the game has even begun, Douglas is caught up in a series of unexplained events designed to strip him of his tenuous security and cast him into a maelstrom of chaos. How do you play a game that hasn't any rules? That's what Douglas has to figure out, and he can't always rely on his intelligence to form logic out of what's happening to him. Seemingly cast as the fall guy in a conspiracy thriller, he encounters a waitress (Deborah Unger) who may or may not be trustworthy, and nothing can be taken at face value in a world turned upside down. Douglas is great at conveying the sheer panic of his character's dilemma, and despite some lapses in credibility and an anticlimactic ending, The Game remains a thinking person's thriller that grabs and holds your attention. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
An unsettling paranoia-inducing thriller about an extreme form of invasion of privacy. The game is an incredible mind-game of a movie. This unusual dive into the ambiguous world of undefined pastime without apparent rules generates achilly intellectual intrigue. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/14/2006 Starring: Michael Douglas James Rebhorn Run time: 128 minutes Rating: R Director: David Fincher
Directors: David Fincher
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English, German
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region 1 U.S. and Canada only.
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: R
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Release Date: August 27, 2002
Run Time: 128 minutes
ASIN: B000069HZP
It's not quite as clever as it tries to be, but The Game does a tremendous job of presenting the story of a rigid control freak trapped in circumstances that are increasingly beyond his control. Michael Douglas plays a rich, divorced, and dreadful investment banker whose 48th birthday reminds him of his father's suicide at the same age. He's locked in the cage of his own misery until his rebellious younger brother (Sean Penn) presents him with a birthday invitation to play "The Game" (described as "an experiential Book of the Month Club")--a mysterious offering from a company called Consumer Recreation Services. Before he knows the game has even begun, Douglas is caught up in a series of unexplained events designed to strip him of his tenuous security and cast him into a maelstrom of chaos. How do you play a game that hasn't any rules? That's what Douglas has to figure out, and he can't always rely on his intelligence to form logic out of what's happening to him. Seemingly cast as the fall guy in a conspiracy thriller, he encounters a waitress (Deborah Unger) who may or may not be trustworthy, and nothing can be taken at face value in a world turned upside down. Douglas is great at conveying the sheer panic of his character's dilemma, and despite some lapses in credibility and an anticlimactic ending, The Game remains a thinking person's thriller that grabs and holds your attention. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
An unsettling paranoia-inducing thriller about an extreme form of invasion of privacy. The game is an incredible mind-game of a movie. This unusual dive into the ambiguous world of undefined pastime without apparent rules generates achilly intellectual intrigue. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/14/2006 Starring: Michael Douglas James Rebhorn Run time: 128 minutes Rating: R Director: David Fincher
