In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

• PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
• Propaganda Films
• Michael Douglas
• Sean Penn
• Deborah Kara Unger
• James Rebhorn
• Peter Donat
• Carroll Baker
• Anna Katarina
• Armin Mueller-Stahl