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The American Friend (DVD)

Dennis Hopper (actor), Bruno Ganz (actor) and Wim Wenders (director)
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Review

Sight and Sound, 08/01/2003, p.66, "...[A] complex and nuanced adaptation....Dennis Hopper makes an amiably psychotic Ripley..."

Entertainment Weekly, 03/21/2003, p.134, "...A French-flavored thriller about friendship, isolation, and its own moody self..."

Premiere, 07/01/2004, p.116, "A moody and entrancing film."

New York Times, 09/24/1977, p.15, "...[One] of the most interesting American underworld movies of recent years....An extremely beautiful film..."

Title Note

Film screened at 1977 New York Film Festival, and at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 0
Keep Case
Anamorphic - 1.77
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - German
Dolby Digital 2.0 - German
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary - 1. Wim Wenders - Director, Dennis Hopper - Star
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
Biographies

Product Notes

Jonathan Zimmermann, a German picture-framer, is dying of a rare blood disease. Despite his illness, the happily married Jonathan does his best to live each day to the fullest with his wife and child. But when Tom Ripley, a cunning American gangster, learns of Jonathan's sickness, he convinces the dying man--deeply concerned about his family's financial future--to work as a hit man for a big payoff. Will Jonathan get in over his head by making a deal that could ruin what's left of his life? German director Wim Wenders delivers a sensitive, film-noirish tribute to the American gangster film, based on the novel RIPLEY'S GAME by Patricia Highsmith.

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