Enemy of the State (1998)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Studio: Touchstone Pictures

Rating: R

Release Date: Nov 20, 1998

Running Time: 127 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King, Stuart Wilson, Laura Cayouette, Loren Dean, Barry Pepper, Ian Hart

director: Tony Scott

An attorney is entangled in a web of national politics when a reporter friend accidentally records the murder of a senator. Unaware that he is in possession of the reporter's video, the attorney becomes the target of a National Security Agency investigation which nearly succeeds in destroying his personal and professional life. Only when he meets the mysterious Brill, a surveillance and information professional, does he begin to understand the stakes in this game.

December 8, 2000

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer damn near atones for the inanities of Armageddon by turning out this dynamite thriller about the abuses of surveillance technology. To keep us glued to a complex, often maddeningly implausible plot, he borrows a trick from the master, Alfred Hitchcock, who knew you had to cast a star -- say, Jimmy Stewart (The Man Who Knew Too Much) or Cary Grant (North By Northwest) -- whom an audience would follow anywhere. Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott have wisely set their…