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The ring

DVD

2003

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Uniform Title:	Ring (Motion picture : 2002)
Title:	The ring / a MacDonald/Parkes production ; a Bender/Spink, Inc. production ; a Dreamworks Pictures presentation ; produced by Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald ; screenplay by Ehren Kruger ; directed by Gore Verbinski.
Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Publisher, Date:	Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, [2003]
Description:	1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:	A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages 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 who is behind it. The Ring is a cinematic thrill ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the stunning opening to the astonishing conclusion! It begins as just another urban legend -- the whispered tale of a nightmarish videotape that causes anyone who watches it to die seven days later. But when four teenagers all meet with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape, investigative reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) tracks down the video ̇and watches it. Now, the legend is coming true, the clock is ticking an Rachel has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references.
Notes:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002. Based on the novel by Koji Suzuki and the movie "The ring" by The Ring/The Spiral Production Group. "Dual layer"--Container. Special features: short film by Gore Verbinski that reveals more secrets about the mystery of The ring; trailer for Ringu. Director of photography, Bojan Bazelli ; editing, Craig Wood ; music, Hans Zimmer ; costume designer, Julie Weiss ; production designer, Tom Duffield. Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Richard Lineback, Daveigh Chase, Lindsay Frost, Pauley Perrette, Jane Alexander, Brian Cox, Amber Tamblyn, Sara Rue, Rachael Bella, Shannon Cochran. Also issued on VHS. DVD, NTSC, Dolby digital, DTS surround sound, Region 1 encoding. For private home use only. English dialogue, Spanish or French subtitles; closed-captioned.

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Call Number:	DVD HORROR RIN
Subjects:	Suzuki, Kōji, 1957- -- Film adaptations. Suzuki, Kōji, 1957- Video tapes -- Drama. Death -- Drama. Death -- Drama. Feature films (R-U). Feature films -- United States. Drama. Feature films. Fiction films. Film adaptations. Horror films. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Feature films. Suspense films. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Horror films. Feature films. Fiction films.
Other Author:	Parkes, Walter F. MacDonald, Laurie. Kruger, Ehren, 1972- Verbinski, Gore. Watts, Naomi, 1968- Henderson, Martin, 1974- Dorfman, David, 1993- Lineback, Richard, 1952- Chase, Daveigh. Frost, Lindsay, 1962- Perrette, Pauley, 1969- Alexander, Jane, 1939- Cox, Brian, 1946- Bazelli, Bojan. Zimmer, Hans. Tamblyn, Amber. Rue, Sara, 1979- Bella, Rachael, 1984- Cochran, Shannon. Suzuki, Kōji, 1957- Ringu. Benderspink (Firm) DreamWorks Pictures (1994-2006) DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm)
ISBN:	0783283024 9780783283029 0783269870 9780783269870

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