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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Directed by Niels Arden Oplev

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Most recently watched by noahphex, jenerator, sleestakk, seanCduregger

Overview

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson’s novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger’s niece

Rated R | Length 152 minutes

Actors

Michael Nyqvist | Noomi Rapace | Lena Endre | Sven-Bertil Taube | Peter Haber | Peter Andersson | Marika Lagercrantz | Ingvar Hirdwall | Björn Granath | Ewa Fröling | Michalis Koutsogiannakis | Annika Hallin | Sofia Ledarp | Tomas Köhler | David Dencik | Stefan Sauk | Gösta Bredefeldt | Fredrik Ohlsson | Jacob Ericksson | Gunnel Lindblom | Barbro Enberg | Reuben Sallmander | Yasmine Garbi | Georgi Staykov | Nina Norén | Emil Almén | Louise Ryme | Pale Olofsson | Mikael Rahm | Willie Andréason | Lennart R. Svensson | Karl Oscar Törnros | Kalled Mustonen | Henrik Knutsson | Alexandra Pascalidou | Tehilla Blad | Julia Sporre | Laura Lind | Isabella Isacson | Richard Franc | Magnus Stenius | Daniel Abreu | Sofia Brattwall | Christian Fiedler | Jannike Grut | Alexandra Hummingson | Shaun R.L. King | Henrik Kvarnlöt | Jan Mybrand | Mika-Christer Mäenpää | Sovi Rydén | Margareta Stone | Lisbeth Åkerman

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Tonia hadn’t seen any of the original films so we watched the first one. While not as stylistically gorgeous as the Fincher remake, Rapace makes a great Salander and the story is truer to the book, as well as more graphic and explicit.

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