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The American Friend|Dennis Hopper

The American Friend

Dennis Hopper
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Overview

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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Main Cast & Crew:
Dennis Hopper

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 715515165716
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Release Date: January 2016

Movie Reviews

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

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


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


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


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


"THE AMERICAN FRIEND is often a first-rate Zimmermann movie. Ganz inhabits the mild-mannered picture framer with the soulful warmth that would serve him so well a decade later as the angel in Wenders’ WINGS OF DESIRE." - 01/09/2016 A.V. Club

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