All in The Game
By September 25, 2012
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Film Info
- United States
- 1997
- 128 minutes
- Color
- 2.40:1
- English
- Spine #627
The enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother (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 the rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewers 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.
Cast
| Nicholas Van Orton | Michael Douglas |
| Conrad | Sean Penn |
| Christine | Deborah Kara Unger |
| Jim Feingold | James Rebhorn |
| Samuel Sutherland | Peter Donat |
| Ilsa | Carroll Baker |
| Anson Baer | Armin Mueller-Stahl |
| Elizabeth | Anna Katarina |
Credits
| Director | David Fincher |
| Written by | John Brancato and Michael Ferris |
| Produced by | Steve Golin and Ceán Chaffin |
| Director of photography | Harris Savides |
| Production design | Jeffrey Beecroft |
| Editor | James Haygood |
| Costume designer | Michael Kaplan |
| Sound design | Ren Klyce |
| Music | Howard Shore |
| Executive producer | Jonathan Mostow |
| Coproducer | John Brancato and Michael Ferris |
| Casting | Don Phillips |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Harris Savides, with original theatrical 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
- Alternate 5.1 surround mix optimized for home theater viewing, supervised by sound designer Ren Klyce and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary by director David Fincher, Savides, actor Michael Douglas, screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris, digital animation supervisor Richard “Dr.” Baily, production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, and visual effects supervisor Kevin Haug
- An hour’s worth of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and film-to-storyboard comparisons for four of the film’s major set pieces, with commentary
- Alternate ending
- Trailer and teaser, with commentary
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt
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All in The Game
By September 25, 2012
No mere jigsaw movie, David Fincher’s thriller is also a nuanced character study, a satire of . . . Read more »
Film Essays
All in The Game
By September 25, 2012
No mere jigsaw movie, David Fincher’s thriller is also a nuanced character study, a satire of . . . Read more »
