The Player Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 124 mins
- Year produced:
- 1992
- Director:
- Robert Altman
- Cast:
- Tim Robbins
- Fred Ward
- Whoopi Goldberg
Griffin Mill is a Hollywood film producer. His time is spent listening to hopeful scriptwriters, but things aren't going so well for Griffin - he's got a rival, a younger executive who's snapping at his heels, and he's getting death threats from a spurned writer. He decides to take matters in to his own hands in this funny and barbed satire of Hollywood ambition, featuring a cast of famous faces, most of who are playing themselves.
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Fascinating facts
Julia Roberts (among others) did her Cameo for nothing.
None of the many celebrity cameos in the film - including Julia Roberts, Cher, Jack Lemmon and Bruce Willis – were scripted. Robert Altman, director of The Player, instead allowed each of the stars making brief appearances “as themselves” to improvise their dialogue