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Features: DVD, Widescreen
Jonathan zimmermann, a picture framer in hamburg is diagnosedwith leukemia. Ripley, an american art dealer dealing inforgeries, uses this fact to arrange for a mob associate toassociate to recruit zimmermann as a hit man. Zimmermann agrees and descends into a nightmare world of deceit and double dealing.
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Region 0 | | Keep Case | | Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.77 | | Letterbox - 1.77 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 2.0 - German | | Dolby Digital 5.1 - German | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers | | Deleted Scenes | | Audio Commentary: Wim Wenders - Director, Dennis Hopper - Star | | Interactive Features:
| Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Text/Photo Galleries:
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Anchor Bay |
| Release Date: 4/7/2009 |
| Running Time: 125 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1977 | | Catalog ID: 12028 | | UPC: 00013131202892 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: German | | Available Audio Tracks: German | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...[One] of the most interesting American underworld movies of recent years....An extremely beautiful film..." 09/24/1977 p.15Entertainment Weekly
"...A French-flavored thriller about friendship, isolation, and its own moody self..." 03/21/2003 p.134 Sight and Sound
"...[A] complex and nuanced adaptation....Dennis Hopper makes an amiably psychotic Ripley..." 08/01/2003 p.66 Premiere
"A moody and entrancing film." 07/01/2004 p.116 |
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