DVD 109 min. IMDB 7.4

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Thriller

Naomi Watts	Rachel Keller
Martin Henderson	Noah
David Dorfman	Aidan
Brian Cox	Richard Morgan
Jane Alexander	Dr. Grasnik
Lindsay Frost	Ruth
Pauley Perrette	Beth
Amber Tamblyn	Katie
Rachael Bella	Becca
Sara Rue	Babysitter
Daveigh Chase	Samara Morgan
Shannon Cochran	Anna Morgan

Regisseur	Gore Verbinski
Producent	Laurie MacDonald
Schrijver	Kôji Suzuki; Hiroshi Takahashi

A disturbing videotape appears to hold the power of life and death over those who view it in this offbeat thriller. A strange videotape begins making the rounds in a town in the Pacific Northwest; full of bizarre and haunting images, after watching it many viewers receive a telephone call in which they are warned they will die in seven days. A handful of teenagers who watched the tape while spending a weekend at a cabin in the mountains scoff at the threat, but as predicted, they all die suddenly on the same night. Rachel Keller ( Nomi Watts ), the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter, and travels West with her young son Aidan ( David Dorfman ), a troubled child who has been drawing pictures of strange and ominous visions. Rachel managed to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve the puzzle of the video and the person or persons behind it within a week. Rachel turns to her ex, Noah ( Martin Henderson ), an expert in video technology who at first is convinced the story is a hoax, until he digs deeper into the mystery. The Ring was adapted from a 1996 Japanese film by Hideo Nakata , which became a massive box office success in Asia and spawned two sequels. — Mark Deming