#627: FINCHER, David: The Game (1997)
FINCHER, David (United States)
The Game [1997]
Spine #627
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
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.
128 minutes
Color
Color
5.1 Surround
2:40:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director/Writer
Written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris.
David Fincher was 35 when he directed The Game.
Other Fincher films in the Collection:
#476: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Film
Other Fincher films in the Collection:
#476: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twenty-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt.
Commentary
By director Fincher, DP Harris Savides, actor Douglas, screenwriters Brancato and 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
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt.
Commentary
By director Fincher, DP Harris Savides, actor Douglas, screenwriters Brancato and 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
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