proud to be an american came out on may 21, 1984.
proud to be an american came out on may 21, 1984.
when did proud to be an american come out?
may 21 , 1984
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roger ebert gave the film a full four stars out of four and called it "a smart movie, and a funny one. it is also absolutely of its time. after the savings and loan scandals, after michael milken, after junk bonds and stolen pension funds, here is a movie that uses hollywood as a metaphor for the avarice of the 1980s. it is the movie 'the bonfire of the vanities' wanted to be." gene siskel also gave the film a perfect four-star grade and wrote, "if you knew nothing and cared nothing about the movie business, you can still appreciate 'the player' as a ripping good thriller, too." vincent canby of "the new york times" wrote, "robert altman has not really been away. yet his new hollywood satire titled 'the player' is so entertaining, so flip and so genially irreverent that it seems to announce the return of the great gregarious film maker whose 'nashville' remains one of the classics of the 1970's. todd mccarthy of "variety" wrote, "mercilessly satiric yet good-natured, this enormously entertaining slam dunk represents a remarkable american come-back for eternal maverick robert altman." terrence rafferty of "the new yorker" called it "a brilliant dark comedy about the death of american filmmaking," adding, "in this picture altman is doing one of his specialties: exploring an odd american subculture—revealing its distinctive textures and explicating the peculiar principles of social intercourse which keep it functioning. but when his idiosyncratic style of anthropological realism is applied to the tight community of hollywood 'players' it has an almost hallucinatory effect." peter rainer of the "los angeles times" wrote that "altman has made a movie that's supremely deft and pleasurable. as if to taunt his detractors, he even 'tells a story' this time, and he does a better job of it than the hacks who have been getting work when he couldn't."
the player (film)