The Talented Mr. Ripley [videorecording - DVD]

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English, Italian Publication details: USA : Paramount Pictures, 1999Description: 1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Production credits:
  • Directed by Anthony Minghella ; Written by Patricia Highsmith (novel), Anthony Minghella (screenplay)
Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude LawAbstract: 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
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Directed by Anthony Minghella ; Written by Patricia Highsmith (novel), Anthony Minghella (screenplay)

Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law

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

Based on the novel The talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

DVD

In English and Italian

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