A young man (Matt Damon) travels to 1950s Italy and begins to assume the identity of a playboy (Jude Law)... (Learn more)
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Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law
After the Oscar-winning The English Patient, writer/director Anthony Minghella attempted another tricky literary adaptation with The Talented Mr. Ripley, which features heartthrob Matt Damon cast against type as a psychopathic bisexual murderer. Tom Ripley (Damon) is a bright and charismatic sociopath who makes his way in mid-'50s New York City as a men's room attendant and sometimes pianist, though his real skill is in impersonating other people, forging handwriting, and running second-rate scams. After being mistaken for a Princeton student, Tom meets the shipping tycoon father of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), who has traveled to the coast of Italy, where he's living a carefree life with his father's money and his beautiful girlfriend, Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow). Dickie's father will pay Ripley 1,000 dollars plus his expenses if he can persuade Dickie to return to America. As Ripley and Dickie become friends, Tom finds himself both attracted to Dickie and envious of his life of pleasure. In time, he decides that he would rather be Dickie Greenleaf than Tom Ripley, so rather than go back to his life of poverty, Ripley impulsively murders Dickie and assumes his identity. The Talented Mr. Ripley was based on the first of a series of novels featuring Tom Ripley written by Patricia Highsmith; the story was previously filmed in 1960 as Purple Noon, with Alain Delon as Ripley. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
12/25/99
MPAA Rating
Rated R
Running Time
139 mins. (V)
Locations
- Cinecitta Studios, Rome, Italy
- Naples, Italy
- Sicily, Italy
- Tuscany, Italy
- Venice, Italy
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$81,292,135
Awards
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1999 Writers Guild of America [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture - Drama award at the 1999 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Film Music award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1999 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Costume Design award at the 1999 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Score award at the 1999 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture award at the 1999 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Score award at the 1999 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1999 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor (Runner-up) award at the 1999 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1999 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Score award at the 1999 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1999 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Art Direction award at the 1999 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1999 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
Distributor
- Paramount
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Paramount Pictures
