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.
ThrillerCrimeDramanew york cityfriendshipshipnew lovelovesicknessjealousydual identitydouble lifebased on novel or bookvenice, italybeguilementitaly
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Character
Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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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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