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 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.
Director-Approved Blu-ray Special Edition Features
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Harris Savides, with original theatrical 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Alternate 5.1 surround mix optimized for home theater viewing, supervised by sound designer Ren Klyce and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary by director David Fincher, Savides, actor Michael Douglas, screenwriters John Brancato and Michael 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, with commentary
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic David Sterritt
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Director-Approved Blu-ray Special Edition Features
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Harris Savides, with original theatrical 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Alternate 5.1 surround mix optimized for home theater viewing, supervised by sound designer Ren Klyce and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary by director David Fincher, Savides, actor Michael Douglas, screenwriters John Brancato and Michael 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, with commentary
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic David Sterritt
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Cast
- Michael Douglas
- Nicholas Van Orton
- Sean Penn
- Conrad
- Deborah Kara Unger
- Christine
- James Rebhorn
- Jim Feingold
- Peter Donat
- Samuel Sutherland
- Carroll Baker
- Ilsa
- Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Anson Baer
- Anna Katarina
- Elizabeth
Credits
- Director
- David Fincher
- Written by
- John Brancato
- Written by
- Michael Ferris
- Produced by
- Steve Golin
- Produced by
- Ceán Chaffin
- Director of photography
- Harris Savides
- Production design
- Jeffrey Beecroft
- Editor
- James Haygood
- Costume designer
- Michael Kaplan
- Sound design
- Ren Klyce
- Music
- Howard Shore
- Executive producer
- Jonathan Mostow
- Coproducer
- John Brancato
- Coproducer
- Michael Ferris
- Casting
- Don Phillips
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Three Reasons: The Game
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