THE GAME (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1997
• Genre: Drama; Mystery; Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: The enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother (Sean Penn) on his forty-eighth birthday: a voucher for a game that, if he agrees to play it, will change his life. Thus begins a trip down the rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewers alike. This multilayered, noirish descent into one man’s personal hell is also a surreal, metacinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenon Se7en, further demonstrated that director David Fincher was one of Hollywood’s true contemporary visionaries.
• Cast: Michael Douglas; Sean Penn; Deborah Kara Unger; James Rebhorn; Peter Donat; Carroll Baker; Anna Katarina; Armin Mueller-Stahl; Charles Martinet; Scott Hunter McGuire; Florentine Mocanu; Elizabeth Dennehy; Caroline Barclay; Daniel Schorr; John Aprea; Harrison Young; Kimberly Russell; Joe Frank; James Brooks; Gerry Becker; Jarion Monroe; Tommy Flanagan; Bill Flannery; Kathyjean Harris; John Cassini; Harris Savides; Aaron Lucich; Victor Talmadge; Marc Siegler; André Brazeau; Keena Turner; Carlos Hoy; Edward Campbell; Sean Lanthier; Curtis Vanterpool; Jay Gordon; Jeffrey Michael Young; Owen Masterson; Yuji Okumoto; Hideo Kimura; Rachel Flanagan; Mark Boone Junior; Joy Ann Ryan; Peter Davidian; Jack Kehoe; Christopher John Fields; Linda Manz; Victor Ferrerira; Duffy Gaver; Bob Stephenson; Sean Moloney; John Hammil; Rachel Steinberg; George Maguire; Trish Summerville; Jason Kristofer; Lily Soh Froehlich; Tammy Koehler; Michael Lynwood; Alex Lynwood; Charles Branklyn; Spike Jonze; Michael Massee; Sara Davallou; Stephen Cowee; Will Jones; Gypsy Boots; Christopher Cory; Tom Crowl; Bob Dini; Terence Ford; Anni Long; Tracie May; Jamie Midgley; J. Anthony Pena; Bob Quinn; Elise Robins; Bob Scott; Jason Uson; David Fincher; John D. Brancato; Michael Ferris
• Director: David Fincher
• Runtime: 2:09
• Company: Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Propaganda Films
• Media Format: Movie