The Story:
Crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist ) is heading for prison after losing a big-time defamation case, but before he's locked up he's offered a bit of freelance investigating work from Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube) who inhabits a gloomy mansion on a remote island and broods about the loss of his beloved niece Harriet (Ewa Froling). She vanished one day when the island was cut off from the mainland. Her body was never found. Because the access bridge was blocked, the killer must have been a member of Vanger's large and greedy family, which he hates. Three brothers were Nazi sympathizers during the war.
He believes that the killer is taunting him and he wants to know who's sending him mementoes that only the dead girl knew about, but while Mikael is good at old-fashioned investigating he's not so flash with computers - which is where the titular girl Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) a quiet 24-year-old Goth tomboy with an introverted personality, that ol’ Troubled Past chestnut and an expert ability to get dirt on her professional victims, mostly by hacking their computers, comes in.
She teams up with Mikael to solve a 40-year-old missing person case.
Starring:
Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Andersson, Peter Haber, Marika Lagercrantz
Directed By:
Bart Freundlich
Release:
2010
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