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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)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
04/16/2020Home TheaterStreamingVideo on Demand8 stars
07/09/2010TVStreamingVideo on Demand10 stars
 

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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