
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
David Fincher, 2011
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, 2005
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a movie directed by David Fincher in 2011 and based on the book of the same name by Stieg Larsson, first published in 2005. The movie features Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, and others.
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Storyline
In Stockholm, disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist is recovering from the legal and professional fallout of a libel suit brought against him by businessman Hans-Erik Wennerström, straining Blomkvist’s relationship with his business partner and married lover, Erika Berger. Salander’s state-appointed guardian, Holger Palmgren, suffers a stroke and is replaced by Nils Bjurman, a sadist who controls Salander’s finances and extorts sexual favors by threatening to have her institutionalized.
Movie vs Book

Year
2011
Minutes
158
Movie Rate
7.80
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Director: David Fincher
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Length: 2h38m
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Year
2005
Pages
465
Book Rate
8.28
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Book
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Original title: Män som hatar kvinnor
Author: Stieg Larsson
Country: Sweden
First published in: 2005
Length: 465 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Millennium
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Niels Arden Oplev
TV Mini-Series by Niels Arden Oplev, Daniel Alfredson
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