The Talented Mr. Ripley

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The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Released Dec 25, 1999

2h 19m

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To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s; that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves- and Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) leads. When Dickie's father asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful expatriate girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make their lifestyle his own.

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Critics Consensus

With Matt Damon's unsettling performance offering a darkly twisted counterpoint to Anthony Minghella's glossy direction, The Talented Mr. Ripley is a suspense thriller that lingers.

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Anthony Lane

The New Yorker

The film feels warm but unsettled, as if hinting at approaching storms; the score, too, flits from lugubrious to manic.

Apr 3, 2023

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Ed Potton

Times (UK)

The menace builds as Tom’s deceptions pile up and the locations — Rome, Venice, cliffside Positano — are as gorgeous as the cast.

Rated: 5/5

Apr 22, 2022

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Nick Schager

The Daily Beast

A decidedly dark and demented sort of polished gem, all spectacular surfaces masking a fundamentally rotten core.

Feb 2, 2021

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Noah Gittell

Washington City Paper

If it wasn’t clear by now, The Talented Mr. Ripley is the rare film of its era in which the actors take center stage, not the director.

Nov 6, 2024

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Matt Damon’s Tom Ripley is a 20th century Iago: he lies for advancement, he lies to protect himself, and he lies because it does not occur to him to simply tell the truth.

Rated: 7/10

Oct 3, 2024

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

A sumptuous thriller directed to near perfection by the late Anthony Minghella.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 8, 2024

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Kauã M

A long journey that left me with a mix of sensations, not knowing if what I'm seeing is extremely boring and meaningless, or brilliant and incredible, and this indecision makes me feel entertained in a film with such good actors and script.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/07/24

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Fabrícia F

Escapar ileso da justiça, mentir, manipular com maestria e matar quando se sente ameaçado, são as principais habilidades do jovem Ripley (Matt Damon) um músico ambicioso que almeja habitar na alta sociedade e por inveja comete erros que escalonam para atos criminais de pura maldade e egoísmo.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/01/24

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Michael V

How far would you go to become someone else. The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Anthony Minghella, based on Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel 🚤 Awesome! 😀 I’d totally recommend it 👍🏼👍🏼 One of my favourite movies of the year ⭐️ 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.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

09/19/24

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Bradley G

The Talented Mr. Ripley is thrilling to watch as Matt Damon adds a dark horse, twisted and manipulative type character and Jude Law really plays the maniac, jazzy and arrogant character to make the film more thrilling to watch.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/27/24

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Christina B

Creepy and excellent. Great cast.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

08/12/24

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Sharang L

The kind of character study that just doesn't get made these days.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/10/24

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Synopsis

To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s; that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves- and Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) leads. When Dickie's father asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful expatriate girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make their lifestyle his own.

Director: Anthony Minghella
Producer: Steve E. Andrews, William Horberg, Tom Sternberg
Screenwriter: Patricia Highsmith, Anthony Minghella
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Timnick Films, Miramax Films, Mirage Enterprises, Paramount Pictures
Rating: R (Language|Brief Nudity|Violence)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 25, 1999, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $81.3M
Runtime: 2h 19m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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