Product Notes
Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Traffic's Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne'er-do-well younger brother (Milk's 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 a rabbit hole that is puzzling terrifying and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewer 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.
Product Reviews
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
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The Game [Criterion Collection] [Blu-Ray] |
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Mystery / Suspense / Thrillers |
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Mystery / Suspense |
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25 September 2012 |
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Michael Douglas(Nicholas Van Orton), Sean Penn(Conrad), Deborah Kara Unger(Christine), James Rebhorn(Jim Feingold), Peter Donat(Samuel Sutherland) |
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David Fincher |
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R |
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Blu-ray Disc |
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2181 |
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715515098717 |
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355558X |
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25 September 2012 |
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CRITERION COLLECTION ( CTIN ) |
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128 |
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A: Americas, E Asia |
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2.40:1 ENG |
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Discs:1 ~ Format:Blu-Ray ~ Region:A |
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Anna Katarina(Elizabeth), Armin Mueller-Stahl(Anson Baer), Carroll Baker(Ilsa), Deborah Kara Unger(Christine), Harrison Young, James Rebhorn(Jim Feingold), Michael Douglas(Nicholas Van Orton), Peter Donat(Samuel Sutherland), Sean Penn(Conrad), Tommy Flanagan |
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Art Director:Steven A. Saklad, Casting:Don Phillips, Cinematographer:Harris Savides, Co-producer:John Brancato, Co-producer:Michael Ferris, Composer (Music Score):Howard Shore, Director:David Fincher, Executive Producer:Jonathan Mostow, Producer:Ce n Chaffin, Producer:Steve Golin, Screenwriter:John Brancato, Screenwriter:Michael Ferris |
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