Dangerous Game

Dangerous Game (also known as Snake Eyes) is a 1993 joint American-Italian drama film directed by Abel Ferrara, written by Nicholas St. John, and starring Madonna, Harvey Keitel, and James Russo.
==Plot==
Utilizing a film-within-a-film format, the overall plot involves New York City-based director Eddie Israel directing actors Sarah Jennings and Frank Burns in a Hollywood marital-crisis drama, Mother of Mirrors, which is about a formerly wealthy but unemployed husband who berates his newly religious wife about what he considers her hypocritical aversion to their sex-and-drug lifestyle. During the shooting of that film, Israel becomes more and more demanding of his actors, growing increasingly obsessive with finding the ugly truths beneath the story's surface. All the while, his own carelessness and bad behavior with his own family begins to erode him and to corrode his marriage to Madlyn.
==Cast==
* Harvey Keitel as Eddie Israel
* Madonna as Sarah Jennings
* James Russo as Francis "Frank" Burns
* Nancy Ferrara as Madlyn Israel. The part was originally offered to Jane Campion.
* Reilly Murphy as Tommy
* Victor Argo as Director of photography
* Leonard L. Thomas as Prop guy
* Randy Sabusawa as Producer
* Christina Fulton as Blonde
* Glenn Plummer as Frank's buddy
* Richard Belzer (cameo)
* Annie McEnroe (cameo)
* Sammy Jack Pressman (cameo)
* Werner Herzog (uncredited, archive footage) as himself
==Release==
Dangerous Game opened in US theaters on November 19, 1993. In 2007, Ferrara recalled,Madonna killed it. The first impression people get on a movie is the one that never gets out of their mind. So after Madonna got mixed reviews for doing Body of Evidence, she thought she was going to surprise the critics and badmouth the film. And she actually got good reviews. She never got a good review from the Voice or The New York Times in her life, but she got good reviews for this movie, which she came out and trashed. I'll never forgive her for it.
This was the first production by Madonna's Maverick Picture Company, a division of the newly formed entertainment company Maverick.
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