Movie: The Player (1992)

• Director: Robert Altman
• Release Date: 10 April 1992 (USA)
• Run Time: 124 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Crime , Drama , Mystery , Romance , Thriller  
• MPAA: Rated R for language, and for some sensuality.

Tagline: The Best Movie Ever Made!" – Griffin Mill  

Trivia: Throughout his career Burt Reynolds has made a number of movies that examine movie-making and this film is one of them. The pictures include Fade-In (1968) (TV) (location filming & westerns); Silent Movie (1976) and Nickelodeon (1976) (silent films); Best Friends (1982) (scriptwriting & Hollywood); Hooper (1978) (stuntwork and Hollywood); The Player (1992) (Hollywood); Boogie Nights (1997) (adult films); The Last Producer (2000) (producers and Hollywood); The Hollywood Sign (2001) and A Bunch of Amateurs (2008) (actors and Hollywood). 

Goofs: Continuity: After the funeral, when Griffin and June have a conversation in the cemetery, the limo driver behind them disappears between shots. 

“A studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by not accepting his script. The writer is sending him threatening postcards. The screener tries to identify the writer in order to pay him off so he’ll be left alone, and then in a case of mistaken identity gone awry, he accidentally gives the writer solid ammunition for blackmail. This plot is written on a backdrop of sleazy Hollywood deals and several subplots involving the politics of the industry. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>”