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To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s; that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley craves--and Dickie Greenleaf leads. When Dickie's father, a wealthy ship builder, asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful ex-patriate girlfriend, Marge Sherwood, never suspect the dangerous extremes to which... See Full Description
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Drama, Romance, Thriller, Crime/Gangster, Adaptation and Remake |
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| Running Time: |
2 hrs. 19 min. |
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| Release Date: |
December 25, 1999 Nationwide |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for violence, language and brief nudity. |
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| Distributors: |
Paramount Pictures
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$81,292,135 |
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
N/A
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NZone,
"Anthony Minghella’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning adaptation of 'The English Patient' is a stylish Hitchcockian thriller that is as beautiful as it is creepy." Full Review...
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CBC Infoculture: 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' marred by flawed talent,
"'The Talented Mr. Ripley' is a perversely malicious and entertaining thriller." Full Review...
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Channel 2000: 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' Intrigues,
"There is a great moment in the opening credits of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' when the title appears and the word 'Talented' is switched with a bunch of other words, such as 'innocent' and'mysterious.'" Full Review...
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culturevulture.net,
"The sight of Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow cavorting through the movie’s Italian locations is enough to make any schlub wonder where his life went wrong and how far he’d go to change it." Full Review...
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