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- 2006
- R
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 27 m
- 2006
- R
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 27 m
Summary Written by acclaimed writer Don DeLillo, Game 6 is an intelligent, witty, unsettling tale of one man’s encounter with his demons, his passions and his infatuation with failure. (Kindred Media Group)
Directed By: Michael Hoffman
Written By: Don DeLillo
- 2006
- R
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 27 m
- 2006
- R
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 27 m
Game 6
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6.8
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Summary Written by acclaimed writer Don DeLillo, Game 6 is an intelligent, witty, unsettling tale of one man’s encounter with his demons, his passions and his infatuation with failure. (Kindred Media Group)
Directed By: Michael Hoffman
Written By: Don DeLillo
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
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10% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
56
55% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
This is DeLillo's first produced screenplay, but he has written for the stage, and perhaps his portrait of Steven Schwimmer (Robert Downey Jr.), the detested critic, is drawn from life.
Keaton's so good you almost forget how wonderful Downey is as Steven Schwimmer.
All this stuff is enacted by a better-than-reliable cast (Griffin Dunne, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine O'Hara, Roger Rees, and more), so Game 6 is never a bore. But it's not much more besides never a bore.
The movie includes a recurring motif of immigrant taxi drivers - like them, the movie is constantly going around in circles.
Game 6, the first screenplay by one of America's great living novelists, Don DeLillo, is poorly served by Michael Hoffman's flat, soporific direction.
DeLillo felt he needed a plot, and he invented one that is shockingly bad for a novelist of his accomplishment. It isn't the use of a plot that degrades the picture: it is the degrading plot itself--which isn't even a good cartoon of a too-busy plot.
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
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