The Player

Griffin Mill is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow, but his job is threatened when up-and-coming exec Larry Levy begins working at the studio. Mill has also been receiving death threat postcards from a writer whose script he rejected, and surmises that the disgruntled writer is David Kahane. The two men fight in a bar, and Mill stages the crime to make it look like a botched robbery, but ultimately kills the wrong man.