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The Game (WS) (1997) DVD Full NTSC
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas), a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad (Sean Penn) -- 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.
Cast:
Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Carroll Baker, Peter Donat, Spike Jonze
Director:
David Fincher
Genres:
Thrillers, Mystery, Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Ratings R Language, and for some violence and sexuality
Length
128 minutes
Screen formats
Widescreen 2.35:1Pan-and-Scan 1.33:1
Subtitles
Spanish
Language and sound
French: Dolby Digital 5.1English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Other features
One of the pluses of DVD is the way it handles dark images. A well-transferred disk can give you the truest blacks of any home video medium. The Game benefits from these rich, dark color transfers -- any movie that has important scenes in near-darkness benefits tremendously from the format. Zero video noise and sharp details of whatever objects are visible give these sequences almost the same quality they had in the theater.
The sound is also exceptional, if not as flashy as on some other DVDs. One of the director's strengths is his subtle use of sound, which is very evocative (try to think of Seven without recalling that film's oppressive soundtrack). The Game makes similar intelligent use of sound that adds to the film's suspense.
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