The American Friend (1977)

The American Friend (1977)

  • 7.4
  • 2h 5min
  • Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
  • 1977-09-28 (USA)

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.



Short Review

... only a filmmaker as humane as [director Wim Wenders] could recognize there's no way out of the story's moral corruption.


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