
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 chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's tale... (Full plot summary below)
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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 chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
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| NetflixJames RocchiTense tale combines travel magazine gloss with Alfred Hitchcock's dark heart. |
| San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamThis thriller is so expertly -- and perversely -- poised that audience members may find themselves secretly rooting for the duplicitous Ripley. |
| San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisIt's that rare movie with a sense of timeliness that is eternal, and a protagonist whose soul-crushed angst, even at its most fatal, speaks to the little boy/girl lost in everyone. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestThis is truly a rich, intelligent, masterfully tuned picture. If you love cinema, you'll adore The Talented Mr. Ripley. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is as intelligent a thriller as you'll see this year. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames KendrickA film Hitchcock would have been proud to make, which is as strong a compliment as one can give to Mingella's efforts in this uniformly first-rate, darkly chilling thriller. |
| Sight and SoundCharlotte O'SullivanThe Talented Mr. Ripley is worth more than a peep. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. Puccio...creates tension in a cool, calculated manner, building slowly, incrementally, and all the more chillingly for its effort. |
| TNT RoughCutChristopher BrandonJust the thing to clear your Capra-glutted holiday movie palate. |
| Film.comErnest HardyA dark film that raises more questions than it answers -- and it's meant to. |