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'The Game'
As Nicholas Van Orton, Michael Douglas is a San Francisco investment banker worth millions, whose human relationships are less than liquid. He’s divorced. He’s only occasionally in touch with his kid brother, Conrad (Sean Penn), who has his share of behavioral problems. We learn that, as a child, Nicholas witnessed his 48-year-old father leap to his death.
Nicholas lives alone with his father’s housekeeper in a castle-cum-prison of a home. It’s clearly time for this ’90s Scrooge to get in touch with his inner bile and learn valuable lessons about himself and people.
When Nicholas turns 48, his brother gives him a one-of-a-kind birthday present: a gift certificate for CRS, or Consumer Recreation Services. But when Nicholas shows up to CRS’s glass tower office to claim his good time, he’s submitted to a physical exam, and a barrage of questionnaires about his financial status, personal history and hobbies. -- Desson Howe
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