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.
Release Date: 25 December 1999Runtime: 139 min
Stars:
- Alessandro Fabrizi
- Anna Longhi
- Cate Blanchett
- Celia Weston
- Fiorello
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Ivano Marescotti
- Jack Davenport
- James Rebhorn
- Jude Law
- Matt Damon
- Philip Baker Hall
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Sergio Rubini
- Stefania Rocca
Director: Anthony Minghella
