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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DOUGLAS,MICHAEL
EAN: 9780783274256
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783274254
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 3951
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: September 12, 1997
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A self-centered businessman is enrolled in a \''game\'' as a birthday present from his brother, and soon finds everything he controlled slipping from his grasp.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 14-FEB-2006
Media Type: DVD
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: - 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 of "The Game", struggling to decide what is going on, and perhaps struggling for survival. Douglas' versatility is on solid display here, and he gets fine backup from the others.
I watched this the day after Batman ("Dark Knight") and enjoyed this one more, except for Heath Ledger as ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the best mindbenders Hollywood has offered.
From start to finish, The Game is full of action, adventure, mind bending twists and turns.
Douglas shines in this role, the typical rich arrogant executive; he gets sucked into something called the Game.
Douglas, not really sure what the Game is, decides to go for it.
Pretty soon his entire life starts to unravel.
It's uncomfortable in places to watch, and is EXTREMELY unrealistic.
Only Hollywood could make us believe something like this could actually happen in real ... 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 feel like they belong or have any connection with anyone. Both men decide that they need a life changing experience to shake them out of their apathy and get them to start living again. In the case of the Game that lost man is Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) a multimillionaire who oversees ... Read More
Rating: - Long, but very entertaining.
I had to study the films of David Fincher last semester and did not know anything about his work except he had directed Fight Club. When the week rolled around which featured The Game, I was "puzzled" as to how this movie will unfold. To my delight, it was very thrilling and Hitchcock-esque in nature. If you're a true fan of Hitchcock, you'll enjoy this.
Rating: - Nick VanOrton has it all, but he lacks one thing.......
One of my all time favorite movies! Nick VanOrton/Michael Douglas shouldve gotten an oscar/high acclaim in this performance. Adventure/Drama/Mystery/Suspense is what you will get from Michael Douglas (an invesment banker/millionaire) running through the streets of San Francisco in a tailored suit and $2,000 shoes with a blonde who confesses that she aint wearing panties while being stuck in the elevator with Nick. Well Nick who is beginning to realize and experience his gift from his bro, connie (Sean ... Read More
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