Older. Wiser. More Talented.
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?
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Grave, classical in form, contemporary and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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Cast
- John MalkovichTom Ripley
- Dougray ScottJonathan Trevanny
- Ray WinstoneReeves
- Lena HeadeySarah Trevanny
- Chiara CaselliLuisa Harari
- Uwe MansshardtTerry
- Hanns ZischlerArt Dealer
- Paolo PaoloniFranco
- Lutz WindeErnst
- Emidio La VellaShoe Store Owner
Crew
- Liliana CavaniDirector
- Liliana CavaniScreenplay
- Charles McKeownScreenplay
- Patricia HighsmithNovel
- Alfio ContiniDirector of Photography
- Ennio MorriconeOriginal Music Composer
- Jon HarrisEditor
- Riccardo TozziProducer
- Simon BosanquetProducer
- Ileen MaiselProducer
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