The Game Movie Review 1997

Investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Douglas) is an uptight corporate control freak. He receives a dangerous birthday present from his blacksheep younger brother Conrad (Penn). It's a subscription to Consumer Recreation Services, a real life-and-death version of a role-playing game that is designed to tap the hidden emotional and physical resources of the client. His life is overrun with an escalating series of traps and terrors, with the game reaching into every facet of his life. Excellent portrayal by Douglas as a man stuck in a Hitchcockian nightmare.

Distribution

USA Home Entertainment, 1 W. Forest, Englewood, NJ 07631-4004, Phone: (201)871-1000, URL: http://www.polygram-us.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 128 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Birthdays, Repressed Men, Psycho-Thriller, Brothers & Sisters, Yuppie Nightmares, It's a Conspiracy, Man!, San Francisco, You Lose, You Die

Screenplay

John Brancato, Michael Ferris

Cast

Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, Armin Mueller-Stahl, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker, Anna (Katerina) Katarina

Cinematography

Harris Savides

Director

David Fincher

Music

Howard Shore

Producer

Steve Golin, Propaganda Films, Polygram Filmed Entertainment