Bibliograph

The ring, a MacDonald/Parkes Production, a Bender/Spink, Inc. production, a Dreamworks Pictures presentation ; producers, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald ; screenplay writer, Ehren Kruger ; director, Gore Verbinski

Type

Label

The ring, a MacDonald/Parkes Production, a Bender/Spink, Inc. production, a Dreamworks Pictures presentation ; producers, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald ; screenplay writer, Ehren Kruger ; director, Gore Verbinski

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references

Main title

The ring

Oclc number

246359

Responsibility statement

a MacDonald/Parkes Production, a Bender/Spink, Inc. production, a Dreamworks Pictures presentation ; producers, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald ; screenplay writer, Ehren Kruger ; director, Gore Verbinski

Runtime

115

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

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification