Release Date: 8/27/2002 Original Release: 1997 Format: DVD Length: 128 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: For language, and for some violence and sexuality. UPC: 025192244728 Studio: Universal Studios Home Video
For the follow-up to his dark crime thriller SEVEN, director David Fincher decided to remain in a film noir vein. The result is THE GAME, a fast-paced cinematic roller-coaster ride that stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual birthday present from his estranged younger brother, Conrad (Sean Penn). The gift enrolls Nicholas in CRS (Consumer Recreation Services), a company that designs elaborate real-life games for each specific participant. As the game begins, the reluctant Nicholas becomes the victim of a series of pranks that quickly turn malicious and dangerous. Stripped of his finances and convinced that he can trust no one, Nicholas realizes that this game may be an attempt to steal his fortune and leave him for dead. In a desperate bid to regain his life, Nicholas infiltrates CRS in order to uncover the secrets of the mysterious organization.
Douglas is perfect playing the uptight businessman Nicholas, cleverly riffing on his Oscar-winning performance as the cold-blooded Gordon Gekko in WALL STREET. Fincher's Kafkaesque carnival show is an exercise in taut filmmaking that mischievously pulls a seemingly endless supply of rugs out from under both Nicholas and, even more impressive, the viewer.
DVD Features
Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Letterbox - 2.35 Widescreen - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital - 5.1 - English Dolby Digital - 5.1 - French Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus Text/Photo Galleries: Biographies
'The Game' is an elaborately and intricately plotted thriller from David Fincher, with a masterful performance from Michael Douglas, as self-absorbed millionaire Nicholas Van Orton, who receives a... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
Posted on June 18, 2007
Reviewed by: DOUGLAS
There was a ton of thought put in this movie , douglass plays a guy who has everything the richness..the good life so his brother gets him a birthday present, something special,, well someplaces i... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
Posted on March 28, 2007
Reviewed by: Thomas
if you thought your day was going bad watch this movie. all i can say is im glad i have never had a birthday like his. This movie turns and twists so much that you never truely know whats going on... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
Posted on September 30, 2007
Posted on March 28, 2007
