The Game

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SF: Screening as a part of WEIRD SF, a celebration of Bay Area genre films co-presented by Amoeba Music The enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother (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 the rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewers alike. This multilayered, noirish descent into one man’s personal hell is also a surreal, meta-cinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenon Se7en, further demonstrated that director David Finche

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