Taglines: Love is a team sport.
Players movie storyline. Mack is a 33-year-old sports journalist in New York City who is known for her ‘plays’, complex deceptions to find hook-ups for herself and her friends – best friend Adam, co-worker Brannagan, and his brother Little. While she enjoys her life, she yearns for a more serious relationship.
She hopes to find one in Nick, a sophisticated war correspondent who has just joined their newspaper. The two have sex, but Mack is disappointed to find that he only considers her a one-night stand. She convinces Adam to help her ensnare Nick. The foursome research Nick’s habits and preferences, eventually devising a play called ‘The Flurry’.
The plan begins with Mack intentionally running into Nick, but ignoring him, attracting his attention. After finding out that he is going on a third date with another girl, the group – having also recruited the paper’s secretary Ashley – schemes to call his date away with an emergency, allowing Mack to take his place.
The two start dating, while Adam begins seeing a new girl, Claire. Nervous about dealing She convinces Adam to run a play with her at brunch, who reluctantly agrees but cautions her to take the relationship more seriously. While at brunch, Mack and Adam demonstrate their natural chemistry and long history together, making Claire uncomfortable with their closeness.
Mack writes a feature about New Yorkers’ favorite sports memories, asking both Adam and Nick to read a draft. While Adam immediately reads and loves the piece, Nick is slow to get to it while working on his latest manuscript. At a gala event where Nick is receiving a humanitarian award from UNICEF, Mack reveals that Nick has rewritten her piece entirely rather than giving feedback.
Adam becomes upset at Nick’s treatment of her and storms off. Mack and Nick fight about the piece that night, where Nick reveals that her job could be in jeopardy in the next round of layoffs at the paper. The two break up, and Mack submits her version of the story, which her editor loves, assigning her to work a Yankees game for the first time.
Players is a 2024 American romantic comedy film directed by Trish Sie and written by Whit Anderson. It stars Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Joel Courtney, Augustus Prew, Liza Koshy, Ego Nwodim, Marin Hinkle, and Tom Ellis. It was released by Netflix on February 14, 2024.
Players (2024)
Directed by: Trish Sie
Starring: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr, Joel Courtney, Augustus Prew, Liza Koshy, Ego Nwodim, Marin Hinkle, Tom Ellis, Veraalba Santa, Sarah Dacey-Charles, Claudia Maree Mailer
Screenplay by: Whit Anderson
Production Design by: Dina Goldman
Cinematography by: Matthew Clark
Film Editing by: Kathryn Himoff
Costume Design by: Karen Malecki
Set Decoration by: Chryss Hionis
Art Direction by: Jordan Jacobs
Music by: Jeff Cardoni
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Netflix
Release Date: February 14, 2024
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