The read
A Balasaur Score of 72 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 92%. Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 83% of the 930 2000s crime movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?
Ratings
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
319 audience votes
Key crew
- Liliana CavaniDirector
- Ennio MorriconeOriginal Music Composer
- Liliana CavaniScreenplay
- Charles McKeownScreenplay
Cast
- John MalkovichTom Ripley
- Dougray ScottJonathan Trevanny
- Ray WinstoneReeves
- Lena HeadeySarah Trevanny
- Chiara CaselliLuisa Harari
- Uwe MansshardtTerry
- Hanns ZischlerArt Dealer
- Paolo PaoloniFranco
- Lutz WindeErnst
- Emidio La VellaShoe Store Owner
- Evelina MeghnagiMaria
- Maurizio LucàFranco's Assistant
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