 the player is a 1992 american satirical film directed by robert altman from a screenplay by michael tolkin based on his own 1988 novel of the same name.tolkin, michael, "the player", 1st ed., new york : atlantic monthly press, 1988. isbn 0-87113-228-1 it is the story of hollywood studio executive griffin mill (tim robbins) who murders an aspiring screenwriter he believed was sending him death threats. the player has many film references and hollywood insider jokes, with around sixty hollywood celebrities agreeing to make cameo appearances in the film. altman stated, "it is a very mild satire," offending no one.dvd commentary on the player. ==plot== griffin mill (tim robbins) is a studio executive dating story editor bonnie sherow (cynthia stevenson). he hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only 12 out of 50,000 submissions every year. his job is endangered when up-and-coming story executive larry levy (peter gallagher) begins working at the studio. mill has also been receiving death-threatening postcards, assumed to be from a screenwriter whose pitch he rejected. mill surmises that the disgruntled writer is david kahane (vincent dâonofrio). mill lurks around kahane's home and is told by kahane's girlfriend, june gudmundsdottir (greta scacchi), whom he watches while talking to her on the phone, that kahane is at a showing of the bicycle thief. mill goes to the theater, pretending to recognize kahane in the lobby after the film, and offers him a scriptwriting deal, hoping this will stop the threats. the two go to a nearby bar and have some drinks. kahane gets intoxicated and rebuffs millâs offer; he calls mill a liar, pointing out that he knows mill didn't really go to the theater to see the bicycle thief because kahane saw mill wander in late and only catch the last five minutes of it, and denies responsibility for sending mill the postcards. kahan
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