The Game (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (TRAFFIC'S Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne'er-do-well younger brother (MILK'S Sean Penn) on his forty-eighth birthday: A voucher for a game that, if he agrees to play it, will change his life. Thus begins a trip down a rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewer alike. This multilayered, noir-ish descent into one man's personal hell is also a surreal, metacinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenon SE7EN, further demonstrated that director David Fincher was one of Hollywood's true contemporary visionaries.

Starring: Michael Douglas, Deborah Unger, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Elizabeth Dennehy, Peter Donat, Charles Martinet, Scott Hunter McGuire, Florentine Mocanu, Caroline Barclay, John Aprea, Tim Donelan, Carroll Baker, Anna Katarina, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Daniel Schorr, Harrison Young, Kimberly Russell, Joe Frank, James Brooks, Gerry Becker, Jarlon Monroe, Tommy Flanagan, Bill Flannery, Kathryn Jean Harris, John Cassini, Harris Savides, Aaron Thomas Luchich, Victor Talmadge, Marc Siegler, Andre' Brazeau, Keena Turner, Carlos Hoy, Edward P. Campbell, Sean Lanthier, Curtis Vanterpool, Jay Gordon, Jeffrey Michael Young, Owen Masterson, Yuji Okumoto, Hideo Kimura, Mark Boone Jr., Rachel Schadt, Mark Boone Junior, Joy Ann Ryan, Peter Davidian, Jack Kehoe, Christopher John Fields, Linda Manz, Victor Ferrerira, Duffy Gaver, Robert Stephenson, Bob Stephenson, Sean Moloney, John Hammil, Rachel Steinberg, George Maguire, Trish Sommerville, Jason Kristopher, Lily Soh Froehlich, Tammy Koehler, Michael Lynwood, Alex Lynwood, Charles Branklyn, Spike Jonze, Michael Massee, Sara Davallou, Stephen Cowee, Bryan Pezzone

Director: Ceán Chaffin, Irene Litinsky, Steve Golin