Player, The
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
Credits by IMDB
Directed by
Robert Altman
Cast
Tim Robbins - Griffin Mill
Greta Scacchi - June Gudmundsdottir
Fred Ward - Walter Stuckel
Whoopi Goldberg - Detective Avery
Peter Gallagher - Larry Levy
Brion James - Joel Levison
Cynthia Stevenson - Bonnie Sherow
Vincent D'Onofrio - David Kahane
Dean Stockwell - Andy Civella
Richard E Grant - Tom Oakley
Sydney Pollack - Dick Mellen
Lyle Lovett - Detective DeLongpre
Dina Merrill - Celia
Angela Hall - Jan
Leah Ayres - Sandy
Production Co.
Avenue Entertainment
Produced by
David Levy
Cary Brokaw
David Brown
William S Gilmore
Scott Bushnell
Michael Tolkin
Nick Wechsler
Studio
Fine Line Features
Writer
Michael Tolkin
Music
Thomas Newman
