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The Talented Mr. Ripley |  | Director: Anthony Minghella
Actors: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Studio: Paramount
Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
as of 9/8/2010 06:03 CDT details
Seller: Amazon Video On Demand
Rating:  383 reviews
Sales Rank: 2369
Genre: Drama - Crime
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 140 Minutes
ASIN: B001JYEMOQ
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1999
Release Date: January 11, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
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 fianc??e, 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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| Customer Reviews:
 The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)-Great Film! May 18, 2010
Keith Mirenberg (www.spaceanimations.org)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)was a great five star film with excellent acting, cast, and needless to say a wonderful script. Those who care about the video quality will also be glad to hear that the film was a very good transfer to DVD. My wife thought the ending was a little weak, but I didn't agree. All in all a great drama and mystery.
Talented Mr Ripley April 19, 2010
Barb Ymiguel (Irvine, CA)
Love this movie. it's great seeing Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow again in this beautifully
set movie. Arrived in good shape and in a very timely manner.
Great Movie! April 11, 2010
B. Kramer (Cleveland, Ohio)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought a copy of this movie for my collection. The price was great & it arrived right on time. Smooth transaction. Thanks.
Beautifully shot, edgy noir in gorgeous Italia March 14, 2010
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
4.6 stars
Pretty much everything and everyone here is top-notch. Damon's Ripley is rather more innocent at first than Highsmith's original, but it works with his gee-whiz looks and plays well against Law's spoiled rich boy. Law, Paltrow and Blanchett are both excellent and believable, as is Hoffman, whose range becomes ever more apparent. These are in fact five of the very best from their generation of actors, and writer/director Minghella gives them plenty to work with here. That he saw their talents clearly well before they'd started to peak only adds more lustre to his genius on display here.
Italy has rarely looked better; clearly Minghella hadn't had enough of la bella Italia after making The English Patient, and he sure knows how to set up a shot and use natural Mediterranean light to greatest effect. And you've got to give the guy credit: he picks the best books to make flicks of. His writing and directing does much justice to Highsmith's novel, and in the first viewing I've had of this since seeing it when it came out, I was never bored even after two hours. The homoerotic edge of the script and Damon's performance is just enough to provide some extra edge here, and makes the ending that much more chilling.
Some reviews here complain about that aspect, and wish they'd been forewarned that there were elements of gayness here, but it's hardly overwhelming and is key to the plot. Then again, if even hints of gayness offend you that much, being offended by this movie might be the least of your issues.
Overall, combining the gorgeous Italian locales (all shot in country) with an excellent plot and script, and adding some very fine acting, one ends up with a superior murder non-mystery worth watching for any number of reasons. Ripley is one of the best noir-type films of the past couple decades, and well worth watching for any fan of the genre, or these actors, or Italy, or just solid movie-making in general.
This will age far better than most films of its decade, count on that.
The Eternal Outsider January 5, 2010
F. S. L'hoir (Irvine, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Perhaps because I had no preconceptions from reading the book, I thought this a terrific film. It contained essential ingredients that I love in a mystery, glorious cinematography of Italy (including Rome--with a fictitious cafe set up in front of what I recall is actually a clothing store across from the Spanish Steps; Venice; and Ischia standing in for the seaside town of the story); suspense, and surprises at every turn.
Under the skilled direction of Anthony Minghella, Matt Damon (arguably) has turned in one of his best performances as the talented young psychopath of the title. As the eternal outsider, he portrays the right amounts of nerdy ingenuousness, opportunism, and a plausibility that acts as a thin veneer for an underlying creepiness. Damon juggles the complexity of Ripley so expertly that he actually had me wincing on his behalf and half-hoping that he would get away with his machinations and find happiness, especially after discovering that the handsome Dicky Greenleaf (Jude Law) was not all that he seemed in the first place. The Misses Paltrow and Blanchett are convincing as post-preppies, and Anthony Seymour Hoffman oozes open menace that also causes one to root for Damon.
This is the third time that I have watched the DVD, and I shall very likely watch it again, partly because of Italy, and partly because of the complexity of the film which allows for new discoveries at every viewing.
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