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Reviews. The American Friend. Roger Ebert January 01, 1977. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. There's something cheerfully perverse about filming a thriller and then tossing out the parts that would help it make sense, but Wim Wenders has a certain success with the method in "The American Friend."
88% Tomatometer 25 Reviews 80% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings American expatriate Tom (Dennis Hopper) treats Hamburg, Germany, like it's the Wild West and makes a living by hawking art forgeries...
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83 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 9/10. 3 things you need to know before you watch this. rooprect 5 September 2020. Plot summary: A normal, family "everyman" crosses paths with a questionable art broker and somehow gets tasked with the job of whacking a few people. 3 interesting things to keep in mind: 1.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 25 critics' reviews of the film are positive, with an average score of 7.3/10; the site's "critics consensus: reads: "The American Friend is a slow burning existential thriller that does justice to the Patricia Highsmith source novel."
The American Friend Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) The American Friend is something else. It's accessible,...
Sep 28, 1977 · Review. Featured review. Film noir and meditation are a bad combo. Wim Wenders is one of my favorite filmmakers, and like Scorsese and Tavernier, he is a world-class cinephile, as much in love with watching movies as he is making them. The problem with 'The American Friend,' I think, is similar to the problem of most contemporary films noir ...
Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight—but when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond.
