Mystery · Drama · Thriller · Comedy · Crime
American
1992 · Directed by Robert Altman · 124 min
Griffin Mill is a polished Hollywood studio executive who hears hundreds of pitches a year and says no to nearly all of them. When anonymous postcards begin arriving from a writer he has snubbed, his confident routine starts to slip. A cool, funny, knowing satire of the industry that made it.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of 1990s American cinema about cinema itself, it stands among the best Hollywood-on-Hollywood satires, alongside Sunset Boulevard, and it revived the career of a key figure of the 1970s American renaissance.
Watch with intention
Treat the film as a study of language: how people in the movie business talk, flatter, pitch and conceal what they mean.
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