How far would you go to become someone else.
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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Classical in form, grave, bleak and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jan 20247/10
With his son off galavanting around Europe, the wealthy "Greenleaf" (James Rebhorn) happens upon the eponymous character (Matt Damon) whom he charges with travelling - first class - to track down "Dickie" (Jude Law) and bring him home. He manages an introduction to his quarry, and his girlfriend "Marge" (Gwyneth Paltrow), on an Italian riviera beach and suggesting they'd both gone to Princeton, manages to inveigle an invitation to lunch. Now "Tom" has done his research here. he knows "Dickie" loves jazz, and so by feigning a recently acquired interest in the music he manages to comprehensively ingratiate himself into their lives. The arrival of their mate "Freddie" (Philip Seymour Hoffmann) manages to unsettle the wealthy man who concludes that he wishes to be rid of his newly acquired parasite. Next thing, well "Dickie" appears to have done his best Greta Garbo "want to be alone" and "Tom" is providing an initial shoulder to cry on for "Marge" before they part company. Now we know what happened, so are not too surprised when we see "Tom" start to live the life he'd always wanted to, he hooks up with "Meredith" (Cate Blanchett) whom he met on the boat over, and a life of fraudulent
Read the whole review on TMDB - Mickerdooon TMDB · Dec 20258/10
An intricate web of lies that spirals out of control. Law is easily coveted. Damon is calculated and cunning. Hoffman had to go.
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Cast
- Matt DamonTom Ripley
- Gwyneth PaltrowMarge Sherwood
- Jude LawDickie Greenleaf
- Cate BlanchettMeredith Logue
- Philip Seymour HoffmanFreddie Miles
- Jack DavenportPeter Smith-Kingsley
- James RebhornHerbert Greenleaf
- Sergio RubiniInspector Roverini
- Philip Baker HallAlvin MacCarron
- Celia WestonAunt Joan
Crew
- Anthony MinghellaDirector
- Anthony MinghellaScreenplay
- Patricia HighsmithNovel
- John SealeDirector of Photography
- Gabriel YaredOriginal Music Composer
- Walter MurchEditor
- Tom SternbergProducer
- William HorbergProducer
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