Talented Mr. Ripley (The)
- Director: Anthony Minghella
- Writer: Patricia Highsmith; Anthony Minghella
- Producer: Steve E. Andrews; Lydia Dean Pilcher
CGiii Comment
Beautifully crafted and realised.
Ripley is a popular character with filmmakers and this is, by far, more stylish than the myriad of others.
It has its critics...but, what do they know?
Damon and Law play their parts perfectly - seductively.
It really is that good.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
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;
Stefania Rocca as Silvana;
Ivano Marescotti as Colonnello Verrecchia;
Anna Longhi as Signora Buffi;
Alessandro Fabrizi as Sergeant Baggio