THE RING

Year: 2002
USA: DreamWorks
UK: UIP (UK)
Cast: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Jane Alexander, Daveigh Chase, Brian Cox, David Dorfman, Lindsay Frost, Amber Tamblyn, Rachael Bella, Shannon Cochran, Sandra Thigpen, Richard Lineback, Sasha Barrese, Adam Brody, Alan Blumenfeld, Pauley Perrette, Joseph Chrest, Ronald William Lawrence, Stephanie Erb, Sara Rue, Lindsey Stoddart, Joe Sabatino, Keith Campbell, Gary Cervantes, Aixa Clemente, Jan D'Arcy, Art Frankel, Chuck Hicks, Coleen Maloney, Catherine Paolone, David Povall, Michael Spound
Director: Gore Verbinski
Countries: USA / Japan
UK: 115 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong menace and moderate horror
USA Release Date: 18 October 2002
UK Release Date: 21 February 2003


Synopsis

It sounded like just another urban legend - a videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) was naturally sceptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she must enlist the aid of her friend Noah (Martin Henderson) to save her life and the life of her son (David Dorfman). Together, they have just seven days to unravel the mystery of THE RING.

A remake of one of Japan's biggest box office hits ever, THE RING was directed by Gore Verbinski (THE MEXICAN, MOUSE HUNT).