The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
December 25, 1999
Thriller, Crime, Drama
2h 20m
How far would you go to become someone else.
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Anthony Minghella
Tom Ripley Matt Damon
Marge Sherwood Gwyneth Paltrow
Dickie Greenleaf Jude Law
Meredith Logue Cate Blanchett
Freddie Miles Philip Seymour Hoffman
Peter Smith-Kingsley Jack Davenport
Herbert Greenleaf James Rebhorn
Inspector Roverini Sergio Rubini
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Keywords
- new york city
- friendship
- ship
- new love
- lovesickness
- jealousy
- dual identity
- double life
- based on novel or book
- venice, italy
- beguilement
- italy
- homicide
- yacht
- secret identity
- atlantic ocean
- new identity
- prosecution
- fake identity
- rejection
- inferiority
- inferiority complex
- wealth
- male homosexuality
- envy
- identity theft
- gay theme
- euphoric