Players (1979 film)

Players
Directed byAnthony Harvey
Written byArnold Schulman
Produced byRobert Evans
StarringAli MacGraw
Dean-Paul Martin
Maximilian Schell
Pancho Gonzalez
CinematographyJames Crabe
Edited byRandy Roberts
Music byJerry Goldsmith
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • June 8, 1979 (1979-06-08)
(New York and L.A.)[1]
Running time
120 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6 million[2]
Box office$7.2 million (US rentals)[3]

Players is a 1979 American romance drama film directed by Anthony Harvey and starring Ali MacGraw and Dean Paul Martin about a young tennis player who has an affair with an older woman.

The film became known as a "disaster".[4]

  1. ^ "Players – Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  2. ^ "Godfather behind another love story". The Guardian. London. 23 June 1979. p. 11.
  3. ^ Epstein, Andrew (Apr 27, 1980). "THE BIG THUDS OF 1979--FILMS THAT FLOPPED, BADLY". Los Angeles Times. p. o6.
  4. ^ Rosenfield, Paul (Dec 4, 1983). "CALENDAR SPECIAL REPORT: BOB EVANS: THE OTHER GATSBY". Los Angeles Times. p. w30.