The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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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
- Director
- Niels Arden Oplev
- Worldwide
- $109M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
23 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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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
Where to watch
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo returned 8.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $13M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $109M
- Release date
- Feb 27, 2009
- Runtime
- 2h 32m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Swedish
- Country
- Germany, Denmark
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