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The American Friend subtitles English. Watch The American Friend online. Buy at Amazon. Movie details. Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. Movie rating: 7.4 / 10 ( 16137 ) Directed by: Wim Wenders - Patricia Highsmith. Writer credits: Patricia Highsmith - Wim Wenders.
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- Dennis Hopper
- Wim Wenders, Patricia Highsmith
The American Friend Movie. The American Friend. Original title: Der amerikanische Freund. Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. themoviedb. Buy Details Resources RSS.
The American Friend . Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored.
Sep 28, 1977 · The American Friend: Directed by Wim Wenders. With Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain. Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Wim Wenders
- 1977-09-28
The American Friend: Little Lies and Big Disasters. In German filmmaker Wim Wenders’s high-strung thriller, adapted from two Patricia Highsmith novels, Dennis Hopper plays sociopathic con man Tom Ripley as a “hopped-up elf from hell” who works his charms on a winsome and guileless Bruno Ganz. Francine Prose.
- Tom Ripley
Wim Wenders' neo-noir, The American Friend is an existential play disguised as a thriller. This film is just dripping with mood, tone and atmosphere. Shot with perfection by Robby Müller, it's one of the most visually pleasing movies I've ever seen. I wanted to live inside the palette of this film.
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The American Friend (German: Der amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 neo-noir film written and directed by Wim Wenders, adapted from the 1974 novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. It stars Dennis Hopper as career-criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an ...
