Great performances from the whole cast. Once the twist starts twisting, you can tell where some things will end up. It's a little long; at one point I thought it was wrapping up, and there was an hour left, but it's beautifully shot and the cast really delivers, so it doesn't drag.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
How far would you go to become someone else.
Rating
4.0 (1)
Release Date
12/25/1999Runtime
140 minsOverview
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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A seductive psychological thriller that immerses you in the mind of a charismatic sociopath as he constructs an elaborate false life in sun-soaked Italy, blending beauty and corruption until you're not sure where the crime ends and the obsession begins.
Mood
ParanoidTenseMelancholicBittersweet
Themes
IdentityObsessionClassLove
Tone
Ironic
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
PainterlyNaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Framed flashback
Heads up
Graphic violence
Matt Damon
Tom Ripley
Gwyneth Paltrow
Marge Sherwood
Jude Law
Dickie Greenleaf
Cate Blanchett
Meredith Logue
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Freddie Miles
Jack Davenport
Peter Smith-Kingsley
James Rebhorn
Herbert Greenleaf
Sergio Rubini
Inspector Roverini
Philip Baker Hall
Alvin MacCarron
Celia Weston
Aunt Joan
Fiorello
Fausto
Stefania Rocca
Silvana
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