The talented Mr. Ripley [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films presents a Mirage Enterprises/Timnick Films production ; directed by Anthony Minghella.
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FilmPublication details: Hollywood, CA : Paramount Pictures, c2000.Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0792165020
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
After the Oscar-winning The English Patient, writer/director Anthony Minghella attempted another tricky literary adaptation with The Talented Mr. Ripley, which features heartthrob Matt Damon cast against type as a psychopathic bisexual murderer. Tom Ripley (Damon) is a bright and charismatic sociopath who makes his way in mid-'50s New York City as a men's room attendant and sometimes pianist, though his real skill is in impersonating other people, forging handwriting, and running second-rate scams. After being mistaken for a Princeton student, Tom meets the shipping tycoon father of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), who has traveled to the coast of Italy, where he's living a carefree life with his father's money and his beautiful girlfriend, Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow). Dickie's father will pay Ripley 1,000 dollars plus his expenses if he can persuade Dickie to return to America. As Ripley and Dickie become friends, Tom finds himself both attracted to Dickie and envious of his life of pleasure. In time, he decides that he would rather be Dickie Greenleaf than Tom Ripley, so rather than go back to his life of poverty, Ripley impulsively murders Dickie and assumes his identity. The Talented Mr. Ripley was based on the first of a series of novels featuring Tom Ripley written by Patricia Highsmith; the story was previously filmed in 1960 as Purple Noon, with Alain Delon as Ripley. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on the novel The talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Includes: Cast and crew interviews, an inside featurette, the making of the soundtrack, "My funny Valentine" music video, "Tu vuo fa LʹAmericano" music video, commentary with the director, and two theatrical trailers.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law.
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Rated R.
VHS.
In English and French with English subtitles.