The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)


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
Rosario Fiorello        Fausto
Stefania Rocca          Silvana
Ivano Marescotti        Colonnello Verrecchia
Anna Longhi             Signora Buffi
Alessandro Fabrizi      Sergeant Baggio
Lisa Eichhorn           Emily Greenleaf
Gretchen Egolf          Fran

Directed by:            Anthony Minghella
Produced by:            Sydney Pollack, Bill Horberg, Tom Sternberg


To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s; 
that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley craves--and Dickie Greenleaf leads. When Dickie's father, a wealthy ship 
builder, asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful ex-patriate 
girlfriend, Marge Sherwood, never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make their 
lifestyle his own. After all, it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

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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.