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A series of CRS-choreographed pranks take a toll on Van Orton's rigid life. Strangers discuss CRS and the game in hushed tones at his athletic club, a CRS pen bleeds blue ink on to his dress shirt, and he's humiliated during a crucial meeting with Anson Baer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) when he's unable to open the locks on his briefcase.

His life takes a turn toward the surreal after he meets an attractive, down-on-her luck waitress (Deborah Kara Unger) and the CRS pranks become life threatening.

After he's stripped of financial resources and convinced that he can trust no one, Van Orton begins to wonder if CRS is a front for a more covert operation, and if the game is in fact an attempt to steal his fortune and leave him for dead. Determined to fight back alone, Nicholas infiltrates CRS in order to "pull back the curtain and meet the wizard."

The Game marks David Fincher's follow-up to his dark and atmospheric crime thriller Seven (1997). The film's stunning cinematography and ominous tone solidify Fincher's reputation as a visionary, groundbreaking director in the tradition of Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott. Michael Douglas excels as the detached investment banker whose life is stripped away, piece by piece, before his own eyes. And Debra Kara Unger sizzles as the enigmatic waitress who may hold all of the answers.

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