The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

The Talented Mr. Ripley rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.4/10· 265K votes

Rotten Tomatoes85%

Metacritic76%

TMDb7.196/10· 4K votes

With 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.4/10 on IMDb and 76/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Talented Mr. Ripley

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.

Cast of The Talented Mr. Ripley

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  Matt Damon

  as Tom Ripley

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  Gwyneth Paltrow

  as Marge Sherwood

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  Jude Law

  as Dickie Greenleaf

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  Cate Blanchett

  as Meredith Logue

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  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  as Freddie Miles

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  Jack Davenport

  as Peter Smith-Kingsley

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  James Rebhorn

  as Herbert Greenleaf

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  Sergio Rubini

  as Inspector Roverini

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  Philip Baker Hall

  as Alvin MacCarron

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  Celia Weston

  as Aunt Joan

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  Fiorello

  as Fausto

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  Stefania Rocca

  as Silvana

The Talented Mr. Ripley facts

Budget

$40M

Box office

$128.8M

Our take on The Talented Mr. Ripley

Anthony Minghella's 1999 thriller introduces Tom Ripley, a calculating young man who would rather be a convincing fake than an honest nobody. When a wealthy shipbuilder mistakes him for a Princeton peer and hires him to retrieve his idle playboy son Dickie from Italy, Ripley insinuates himself into the sun-drenched lives of Dickie and his girlfriend. Enchanted by their world, he slides into an escalating scheme of deception, lies and murder. Elegant, sunlit and quietly sinister, it turns envy and self-invention into slow-burning suspense. It suits viewers who savor sophisticated character-driven thrillers with moral ambiguity and a seductive European setting, and don't need their villains to be simple.