Talented Mr Ripley
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
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
Philip Baker Hall
.... Alvin MacCarron
Celia Weston
.... Aunt Joan
Fiorello
.... Fausto (as Rosario Fiorello)
Stefania Rocca
.... Silvana
Ivano Marescotti
.... Colonnello Verrecchia
Anna Longhi
.... Signora Buffi
Alessandro Fabrizi
.... Sergeant Baggio
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 meets and greats Tom, he pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), the mans son, to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow, Dickie's cultured fiancйe, pretending to love jazz and harbouring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome
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