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Screenplay Anthony Minghella
Director Anthony Minghella

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Tagline: How far would you go to become someone else.

Release Date: 1999-12-25

Duration: 140 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Matt Damon
    Tom Ripley
  • Cate Blanchett
    Meredith Logue
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
    Marge Sherwood
  • Jude Law
    Dickie Greenleaf
  • Deirdre Lovejoy
    Fighting Neighbor
  • Jack Davenport
    Peter Smith-Kingsley
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Freddie Miles
  • James Rebhorn
    Herbert Greenleaf
  • Celia Weston
    Aunt Joan
  • Dominic Fumusa
    Italian Boy in Rome (uncredited)