The American Friend
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. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.
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Crime, Mystery, Thriller
1977
125 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : The American Friend
- Duration : 125 min
- Languages : German, English, French
- Writers : Patricia Highsmith (novel), Wim Wenders
- Directors : Wim Wenders min
- Imdb : 7.4 (7869 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.8 (4613 votes)
- Actors : Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gèrard Blain
Movie Storyline
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. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.