The ring [videorecording] / 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.
Other Titles: Ring (Motion picture : 2002).
Ringu.
Edition: Widescreen version.
Publisher: Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002.
ISBN: 0783269870
Description: 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject(s): Video tapes Drama.
Death Drama.
Videocintas Teatro. bidex
Muerte Teatro. bidex
Feature films. gsafd
Suspense films. gsafd
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcsh
Credits: Director of photography, Bojan Bazelli ; editor, Craig Wood ; music, Hans Zimmer ; costume designer, Julie Weiss ; production designer, Tom Duffield.
Performers: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Richard Lineback, Daveigh Chase, Lindsay Frost, Pauley Perrette, Jane Alexander, Brian Cox.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references.
Notes: Dialogue in English and French; subtitles in French and Spanish; closed-captioned.
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.
Summary: A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After the 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.
