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    The American Friend

    1977 · Thriller · 2h 7m

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      • The American Friend Summaries Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. 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.
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  2. Gradually succumbing to an incurable illness, Jonathan Zimmermann, a humble family man and picture framer, has a chance encounter with the amoral American expatriate and art dealer, Tom Ripley, at an auction in Hamburg.

  3. "The American Friend" lacks the same clarity and unsparing eye. It's deliberately murky, I suppose, in its tale of a criminal and personal triangle involving an American (Hopper) who becomes a middleman between a French gangster and a German picture framer.

  4. Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley.

    • Wim Wenders
    • Joachim Mengershausen
    • Lisa Kreuzer
    • Wim Wenders
  5. American expatriate Tom (Dennis Hopper) treats Hamburg, Germany, like it's the Wild West and makes a living by hawking art forgeries, but decides to take part in a murder plot for extra cash.

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    • Dennis Hopper
    • Wim Wenders
    • Bavaria Film
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  6. Brief Synopsis. A dying man reluctantly takes on a job as a hit man in order to have money to leave to his widow.

    • Wim Wenders
    • Bruno Ganz
  7. Sep 26, 1977 · Synopsis by Michael Costello. Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley.

  8. Summary Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. Crime. Drama. Mystery. Thriller. Directed By: Wim Wenders. Written By: Patricia Highsmith, Wim Wenders. The American Friend. Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews. 79. User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings.

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