The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999 • 2h 20m •

Thriller Crime Drama

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★ 7.2/10

4,290 reviews

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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.

"How far would you go to become someone else."

Top Billed Cast

Matt Damon

Tom Ripley

Gwyneth Paltrow

Marge Sherwood

Jude Law

Dickie Greenleaf

Cate Blanchett

Meredith Logue

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Freddie Miles

Jack Davenport

Peter Smith-Kingsley

James Rebhorn

Herbert Greenleaf

Sergio Rubini

Inspector Roverini

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C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic

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...

M Mickerdoo Verified TMDB Critic

2025-12-25

An intricate web of lies that spirals out of control. Law is easily coveted. Damon is calculated and cunning. Hoffman had to go....