The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Matt Damon | as | Tom Ripley | | Gwyneth Paltrow | as | Marge Sherwood | | Jude Law | as | Dickie Greenleaf | | Cate Blanchett | as | Meredith Logue | | Philip Seymour Hoffman | as | Freddie Miles | | Jack Davenport | as | Peter Smith-Kingsley | | James Rebhorn | as | Herbert Greenleaf | | Sergio Rubini | as | Inspector Roverini | | Philip Baker Hall | as | Alvin MacCarron | | Celia Weston | as | Aunt Joan | | Fiorello | as | Fausto (as Rosario Fiorello) | | Stefania Rocca | as | Silvana | | Ivano Marescotti | as | Colonnello Verrecchia | | Anna Longhi | as | Signora Buffi | | Alessandro Fabrizi | as | Sergeant Baggio |
| | Crew list: | | Anthony Minghella (Director) | | Patricia Highsmith (Writer) | | Anthony Minghella (Writer) |
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Review
The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own. |
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