The Game

Director: David Fincher
Writer: John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris
Studio: Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Release Date: 09/1997
Countries: USA
Runtime: 128 min
Awards: 1 nomination

Description: 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.