The Game

The Game

  • Director: David Fincher
  • Writer: John Brancato,Michael Ferris
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Cantonese, German
  • Release date: September 12, 1997
  • Runtime: 2h 9min
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: Tro Choi
  • "The Game" (The Game) is a suspense film released by Propaganda Films , directed by Davey, Finch, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Justin Penn . The film was released in the United States on September 12, 1997.
    The film tells the story of billionaire Nicholas under the guidance of his brother, involved in the CRS club game, and gradually put into the game, but found his life and even life being dragged into the abyss Story, Narrative . 

    Details

    • Release date September 12, 1997
    • Filming locations Filoli Estate - 86 Cañada Road, Woodside, California, USA
    • Production companies Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Propaganda Films, A&B Producoes, Lda.

    Box office

    Budget

    $50,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $48,323,648

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $14,337,029

    Gross worldwide

    $109,423,648

    Movie reviews

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    • By Eunice 2022-04-22 07:01:03

      Mind Games: Thrilling!

      Although this film was made 23 years ago, it can be described as thrilling as the plot progresses step by step for the audience to follow. Because the whole process was very tense and exciting, my palms were slightly sweaty. The film mainly tells about two brothers. The older brother is the president of a company: he has a busy business and a lot of work pressure,...

    • By Darryl 2022-04-22 07:01:03

      Analysis of human nature back to the original self

      Billionaire Mr Fan (Michael Douglas) receives a gift from his brother Conrad (Sean Penn) at the age of forty-eight, a game card for the CRS club. The content of the game is tailor-made for Michael, pointing directly to the shadow of childhood in his heart. Maybe life is a game, and he is the protagonist of it. Whether you perform well or not, whether it is true or not, depends on how committed you are. And if you only regard the people around you as...

    • By Gudrun 2022-04-22 07:01:03

      Mind games that ordinary people can't bear

      After watching this movie, I was a little confused at first. At first, I would guess whether he was schizophrenic and imagined so many scenes and this game, because some of the processes are too realistic and coincidental, making people feel that this is not a game at all. I don't think there is such a great company. When he called to confirm the bank deposit, I thought it was a scam. I think I guessed right after he drank Christine's coffee, and then as she crawled out of the cemetery and...

    • By Timmy 2022-04-22 07:01:03

      Many disadvantages

      I'm relatively loose

      There is a frame skipping in the middle, I don't know if it is a resource problem.

      The director controls the rhythm very well, and the assembly of the shots also proves that this is a suspenseful movie that entertains the audience, but the director can't treat the audience as a fool in order to achieve the suspenseful effect. In many places, I don't know if it is the alienation effect that the director deliberately created. After jumping out of the director's...

    • By Lottie 2022-04-22 07:01:03

      What is real? What is the truth?

      The movie gave me a sense of confusion. When I watched it, I felt that all of this was actually fake. CRS didn't want to kill him, because the place where it wanted to drown him was actually given the puzzle props in advance; when Nicholas was stunned in the cabin, if If they really took money, they could actually kill him directly, but they just buried him alive in another area, so it can be speculated that they didn't want the protagonist to die. But in the end, when CRS told Nicholas that...

    User comments

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    • By Ceasar 2023-09-17 13:16:32

      A commercial film with some ideas, but the plot I already knew when I watched it, failed to follow the direction the film led. It seems that the plot is exquisite, but then I thought that a movie is a movie, and the screenwriter makes it as clever as it...

    • By Nina 2023-08-31 18:54:38

      The story in the early stage was uneventful, but fortunately, the second half was a series of twists and turns. However, the lackluster performance of the actors and the slag-like soundtrack still prevent the film from being promoted to the list of excellent...

    • By Margaretta 2023-08-26 02:16:19

      If a film like this that didn't do a good job of bringing the audience into the plot and making it interesting at the beginning of the film was labeled as David Fincher, we might still watch it. But a movie is a movie, the movie speaks for itself, I didn't watch it to get an unexpected ending. Furthermore, in terms of the setting of the ending, there is no more powerful than "Fight Club" and "Seven Deadly...

    • By Idella 2023-08-13 19:39:05

      7.3 points, I'm still a little disappointed in this movie by David Fincher. There are many people in the hot review who gave bad stars because of the happy ending, but I don't think that the dark and crippling ending is not necessarily better than the vulgar happy movie. However, the film's happy ending does make many plots seem far-fetched, too many coincidences, and the characters are more like marionettes. If it's just a game, why make it so thrilling... How can forcing you to jump off the...

    • By Haley 2023-04-16 22:40:49

      Compared with Fight Club and the Seven Deadly Sins, this is not like David Fincher's style at all~ There is no other connotation except that it reflects the feeling of life like a play. The level of suspense is too low to say nothing at all....

    Movie plot

    Nicholas Wan Otto inherited his father's business and became the president of a conglomerate. On his 48th birthday, he suddenly received a "Consumer Entertainment Service Center" (CRS) membership card from his long-lost brother Conrad as a birthday gift.
    The head of CRS, Jim Fangod, warmly received Nicholas and told him that he would become a participant in a "game". A series of strange things happened one after another around Nicholas:...
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    Movie quotes

    • Daniel Schorr: [on TV] A staggering 57% of American workers believe there is a very real chance they will be unemployed in the next 5 to 7 years. But what does that matter to a bloated millionaire fat-cat like you?

    • Christine: What *is* the going rate for a trapped-in-an-elevator adventure?

    • Christine: You got a shower in your office?

      Nicholas: Yeah.

      Christine: You an athlete or something?

      Nicholas: No, I'm an investment banker.