The Talented Mr. Ripley

19991999
RR
2h 19min

Jude Law, Matt Damon, and Gwyneth Paltrow in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

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In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extr... Read allIn late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.

Director
- Anthony Minghella
Writers
- Patricia Highsmith(novel)
- Anthony Minghella(screenplay)
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Nominated for 5 Oscars
- 10 wins & 81 nominations total

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Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

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Director
- Anthony Minghella
Writers
- Patricia Highsmith(novel)
- Anthony Minghella(screenplay)
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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. —<jhailey@hotmail.com>

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Taglines
- How far would you go to become someone else?
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity
Parents guide

Trivia
This is Matt Damon's favorite film of those he has made.

Goofs
When Tom talks to Marge after he returned home from San Remo, the cover of a Miles Davis LP is visible in the background. It's the cover sleeve of "Tutu" which was released in 1986. However, the movie is set in 1958.

Quotes
Tom Ripley: Don't you just take the past and put it in a room in a basement and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do. And then you meet someone special and all you want to do is to toss them the key and say, "Open up, step inside," but you can't because it's dark. There's demons, and if anybody saw how ugly it is... I keep wanting to do that: fling the door open, just let light in and clean everything out.

Crazy credits
The opening title uses all the adjectives of the complete title before cutting to the final "The Talented Mr. Ripley."

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Any Given Sunday/Fantasia 2000/Galaxy Quest/The Talented Mr. Ripley/The Hurricane (1999)

Soundtracks
Lullaby for Cain
Music by Gabriel Yared
Lyric by Anthony Minghella
Performed by Sinéad O'Connor
Produced by Anthony Minghella & Gabriel Yared
Sinéad O'Connor performs courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation

Top review

10/10

It deserves to be much higher then 7.4

One of the last great movies of the 20th century, Yes I was so surprised to see it so low I really expected it to be 8.3 or something like that,

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Sep 21, 2019

Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $81,298,265
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,738,237
- Dec 26, 1999
Gross worldwide
- $128,799,509

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Runtime
- 2h 19min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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