The Game / PolyGram Films ; PolyGram Filmed Entertainment presents a Propaganda Films production ; directed by David Fincher ; written by John Brancato & Michael Ferris ; produced by Steve Golin and Ceán Chaffin.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 22447 | UniversalLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publication details: New York, NY : Universal : PolyGram Video [manufacturer], ©2002.Description: 1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0783274254
- 9780783274256
- Director of photography, Harris Savides ; editor, James Haygood ; music, Howard Shore ; costume designer, Michael Kaplan ; production designer, Jeffrey Beecroft.
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Game | Available | 33111009110640 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Director David Fincher followed the success of his dark and atmospheric crime thriller Seven (1995) with another exercise in stylish film noir, this time lifting the pallid atmosphere a notch to indulge in a fast-paced trip through the cinematic funhouse. Michael Douglas plays Nicholas Van Orton, a Scrooge-like San Francisco investment banker following in his father's Scrooge-like footsteps. On Nicholas's 48th birthday (the age at which his father committed suicide), his younger, free-spirited brother Conrad (Sean Penn) blows into town and gives Nicholas a special gift for "the man who has everything" -- a ticket to CRS (Consumer Recreation Services), a company that constructs games custom-fit for each participant to provide, as CRS salesman Jim Feingold (James Rebhorn) cryptically puts it, "whatever is lacking." Nicholas's secure life begins a downhill slide as CRS masterminds a series of elaborate pranks, harmless at first, that quickly become malicious and life-threatening. Stripped of financial resources and convinced that he can trust no one, Nicholas begins to wonder if CRS is a front for a more covert operation, and if the game is in fact an attempt to steal his fortune and leave him for dead. Determined to fight back alone, Nicholas infiltrates CRS in order to "pull back the curtain and meet the wizard." ~ Anthony Reed, Rovi
DVD.
English, French dubbed, or Spanish subtitled; closed-captioned.
Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Deborah Kara Unger, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Anna Katerina.
Director of photography, Harris Savides ; editor, James Haygood ; music, Howard Shore ; costume designer, Michael Kaplan ; production designer, Jeffrey Beecroft.
Widescreen (aspect ratio 2.35:1) and standard presentations.
Originally released as motion picture in 1997.
"In this thriller, Nicholas Van Orton, a shrewd and successful businessman who is always in control, has been enrolled by his brother in "The Game"--"a profound life experience" with no rules, which begins quietly but soon erupts in a confusing maze of devastating events. Terrorized by forces who seem intent on dismantling all that he has built, Van Orton has to win this deadly game or lose control of everything in his life."
Special features: Biographies of filmmakers and cast.
MPAA rating: R.
Side [1]. Standard -- side [2]. Widescreen.