1999 Movie
Out of catalog
Dir. Anthony Minghella · United States of America · English, Italian
How far would you go to become someone else.
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.
"The film feels warm but unsettled, as if hinting at approaching storms; the score, too, flits from lugubrious to manic."
— Anthony Lane
"It's a gorgeously unsettling film. You can hide in the shadows, but luminescence exposes who you are, and the only escape is into another identity."
— Peter Rainer
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