The Game
1997 · 129 min
Directed by David Fincher. Written by John Brancato, Michael Ferris. Starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn.
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.
Critics 78% · audiences 84%