The Talented Mr. Ripley

How far would you go to become someone else.

Plot Summary

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.

7.2 /10

1999

US

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new york city

friendship

ship

new love

lovesickness

jealousy

dual identity

double life

based on novel or book

venice, italy

beguilement

italy

homicide

yacht

secret identity

atlantic ocean

new identity

prosecution

fake identity

rejection

inferiority

inferiority complex

wealth

male homosexuality

envy

identity theft

gay theme

frightened