The Talented Mr. Ripley

• 7.19 Thriller
• 1999-12-25
• 140 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Anthony Minghella

Writer:

Anthony Minghella