Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Cate Blanchett electrify the screen in this riveting thriller from Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient). Matt Damon “gives one of the year’s most extraordinary performances” (Premiere) as Tom Ripley, 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 American shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie (Law). Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend (Paltrow), plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Critics Reviews:
- ""The film feels warm but unsettled, as if hinting at approaching storms; the score, too, flits from lugubrious to manic."" – Anthony Lane (New Yorker)
- ""The menace builds as Tom’s deceptions pile up and the locations — Rome, Venice, cliffside Positano — are as gorgeous as the cast."" – Ed Potton (Times (UK))
- ""Minghella puts us inside Ripley's head, inviting us to share his envy and giddy excitement even as we recognize his warped need to be someone he's not."" – David Ansen (Newsweek)
- """The Talented Mr. Ripley" slithers along with great elegance and purpose for most of Ripley's reign, stumbling only at the end when Minghella trips on the limitations imposed by his own updated psychoanalysis."" – Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly)
