Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: HD DVD Brand: Universal EAN: 0025192791420 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Release Date: April 17, 2007 Running Time: 129 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: September 12, 1997 Sales Rank: 17214 MPN: 79142
Description: There are no rules in The Game. And that will make life very difficult for Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas), a successful businessman who is always in control. Van Orton lives a well-ordered life-until an unexpected birthday gift from his brother (Sean Penn) destroys it all. Van Orton has been enrolled in a game-"a profound life experience"-that begins quietly enough but soon erupts in a rush of devastating events. Like it or not, he must either win or lose control of everything in his life.
Amazon.com: It's not quite as clever as it tries to be, but The Game does a tremendous job of presenting the story of a rigid control freak trapped in circumstances that are increasingly beyond his control. Michael Douglas plays a rich, divorced, and dreadful investment banker whose 48th birthday reminds him of his father's suicide at the same age. He's locked in the cage of his own misery until his rebellious younger brother (Sean Penn) presents him with a birthday invitation to play "The Game" (described as "an experiential Book of the Month Club")--a mysterious offering from a company called Consumer Recreation Services. Before he knows the game has even begun, Douglas is caught up in a series of unexplained events designed to strip him of his tenuous security and cast him into a maelstrom of chaos. How do you play a game that hasn't any rules? That's what Douglas has to figure out, and he can't always rely on his intelligence to form logic out of what's happening to him. Seemingly cast as the fall guy in a conspiracy thriller, he encounters a waitress (Deborah Unger) who may or may not be trustworthy, and nothing can be taken at face value in a world turned upside down. Douglas is great at conveying the sheer panic of his character's dilemma, and despite some lapses in credibility and an anticlimactic ending, The Game remains a thinking person's thriller that grabs and holds your attention. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - What a thriller
Anything with Michael Douglas is great, but this is a real thriller and who-dun-it! It will keep you guessing until the end. A "best buy" as far as I'm concerned.
Rating: - Thew Game
The product was received in excellent condition and the movie dvd was also in excellent condition.
Rating: - The ending tells it all.
Great movie! Most of the reviews indicate that most people see this as a movie about a man who plays life changing wild game given as a gift from a brother who also benefited from playing the game. It's ... Read More
Rating: - suspend disbelief and enjoy
Michael Douglas completely dominates "The Game", with nobody else, even Sean Penn, appearing in major minutes. He goes from the "Greed is Good" style investment banker, rich but alone, to a harried victim ... Read More
Rating: - Fincher's sort of prequel to Fight Club
In the Game director David Fincher would introduce many of the same themes he would expand upon in his next film Fight Club. Both films tell the tale of wealthy but bored men who feel dead inside, they don't ... Read More
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- What a thriller