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25/12/1999 Thriller, Crime, Drama 2h 20m
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How far would you go to become someone else.

Overview

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.

  1. Anthony Minghella

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Matt Damon

    Tom Ripley

  2. Gwyneth Paltrow

    Marge Sherwood

  3. Jude Law

    Dickie Greenleaf

  4. Cate Blanchett

    Meredith Logue

  5. Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Freddie Miles

  6. Jack Davenport

    Peter Smith-Kingsley

  7. James Rebhorn

    Herbert Greenleaf

  8. Sergio Rubini

    Inspector Roverini

  9. Philip Baker Hall

    Alvin MacCarron

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-01-18
With his son off galavanting around Europe, the wealthy "Greenleaf" (James Rebhorn) happens upon the eponymous character (Matt Damon) whom he charges with travelling - first class - to track down "Dickie" (Jude Law) and bring him home. He manages an introduction to his quarry, and his girlfriend "Marge" (Gwyneth Paltrow), on an Italian riviera beach and suggesting they'd both gone to Princeton, manages to inveigle an invitation to lunch. Now "Tom" has done his research here. he knows "Dickie" loves jazz, and so by feigning a recently acquired interest in the music he manages to comprehensively...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$40,000,000.00

Revenue
$128,798,265.00

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