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  • Stellan Skarsgard (Swedish Hollywood actor) as Martin Vanger

    David Fincher Directing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Next | /Film 2010

  • Daniel Craig gives a spry, winning performance as Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced Stockholm journalist who accepts a commission from wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger Christopher Plummer, who lives far to the north amid a smattering of brothers and sisters he can hardly bear to speak to.

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – review 2011

  • Nominally, Vanger wants Blomkvist to research his memoirs, though what he's really after or what he says he's after is the identity of whoever abducted his teenage niece more than 40 years before.

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – review 2011

  • "You will be investigating the most detestable people you are ever likely to meet," Vanger announces with relish.

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – review 2011

  • I have no idea how common the Vanger family, with its Nazi past, is in Sweden, though I assume it's one of the indictments against his own society that Larsson was trying to get across.

    What's so unfunny about crime fiction, and why? Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • "Creepiness aside," Mr. LaPann says, the book is about the intersection of family and business, and he finds many of the problems the book's Vanger family faces applicable to his own clients as they sell companies or prepare to pass the baton in family foundations.

    A Novel Idea Melissa Korn 2010

  • Now her uncle, obsessed with her loss, has hired a disgraced journalist as his private detective, and instructed him to concentrate on the Vanger family, with its history of Fascist leanings and general nastiness.

    'Greenberg': Losers' Winning Love Story Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • Now her uncle, obsessed with her loss, has hired a disgraced journalist as his private detective, and instructed him to concentrate on the Vanger family, with its history of Fascist leanings and general nastiness.

    'Greenberg': Losers' Winning Love Story Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • Now her uncle, obsessed with her loss, has hired a disgraced journalist as his private detective, and instructed him to concentrate on the Vanger family, with its history of Fascist leanings and general nastiness.

    'Greenberg': Losers' Winning Love Story Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family.

    Filmstalker: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) trailer online 2009

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