Fresh
Superb adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, with Hopper as her amiably cynical hero.
Tom Milne, Time Out
The American Friend
1977 · 2h 5m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Wim Wenders
Overview
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
Director and cast
- Wim Wenders Director
- Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley
- Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann
- Lisa Kreuzer as Marianne Zimmermann
- Gérard Blain as Raoul Minot
- Nicholas Ray as Derwatt
- Samuel Fuller as Der Amerikaner
- Peter Lilienthal as Marcangelo
- Daniel Schmid as Igraham
- Sandy Whitelaw as Arzt in Paris
- Jean Eustache Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Gripping 1977 American thriller from Wim Wenders that turns back on itself with deadly European irony.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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