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The American Friend Jonathan Zimmerman, a picture framer who suffers from a fatal disease, crosses paths with Tom Ripley, who trafficks in forged artworks. Drawn into an underworld of shady gangsters, Zimmerman is tempted to commit murder for a sum of money that would ensure the welfare of his family after his death.
The American Friend 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 assassin.
The American Friend is 1833 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 565 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than A Christmas Story Christmas but less popular than It Stopped Raining.
- 125 min
Feb 25, 2015 · Superb adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, with Hopper as her amiably cynical hero, asked to find a non-professional for a killing or two, and - in echo of Strangers on a Train ...
Directed by Wim Wenders. Starring Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain. Screenplay by Wim Wenders. DCP. Approx. 127 min. Dennis Hopper’s enigmatic Yank expatriate inveigles good-hearted German loser Bruno Ganz into international chicanery in Wenders’ garishly-colored adaptation of Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game, with ...
Details: 1977, Rest of the world, Cert 15, 123 mins Direction: Wim Wenders Summary: Wim Wenders gives Patricia Highsmith's amoral assassin Ripley a remarkably subtle treatment in this genuine ...
