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