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About The Game

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 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. [129 min; thriller, drama; English, Cantonese, German, Spanish, and Thai with English subtitles]

“A clockwork thriller that turns all of Fincher's detail-oriented obsessiveness into a surprisingly emotional tale of catharsis and dark nights of the soul.” – Clint Worthington, The Spool

“A feral puzzle of absurd corporate antics, Fincher's third film posits a horrifying question that no other filmmaker has dared to ask: what if Sean Penn was your brother?” – Luke Hicks, Film School Rejects

“The more we invest in Nicholas' bank of experiences, the more we display our willing complicity with, even subservience to, a system that lets cocooned elites merely play games (on an urban, even international scale).” – Anton Bitel, Little White Lies

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