The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 English-language drama/thriller film directed by David Fincher, adapted from Stieg Larsson's Swedish-language novel of the same name by Steven Zaillian.
The film stars Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander and tells the story of a man's mission to find out what has happened to a girl who has been missing for 40 years, and who may have been murdered.
CAST
Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist
Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander
Christopher Plummer as Henrik Vanger
Stellan Skarsgård as Martin Vanger
Robin Wright as Erika Berger
Steven Berkoff as Dirch Frode
Geraldine James as Cecilia Vanger
Yorick van Wageningen as Nils Bjurman
Joely Richardson as Anita Vanger
Goran Vi?njić as Dragan Armansky
Donald Sumpter as Detective Morell
Embeth Davidtz as Annika Giannini
Joel Kinnaman as Christer Malm
Elodie Yung as Miriam Wu
Tony Way as Plague
Alan Dale as Detective Isaksson
Julian Sands as Young Henrik Vanger
David Dencik as Young Morell
Fredrik Dolk as Wennerström's Lawyer
I saw this movie Friday and it was amazing. I now want to watch all three original Swedish movies adapted from the three books by Stieg Larsson. So good! I recommend this highly. It is intense but very well done.