Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792165026
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792165020
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD331424D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 27, 2000
Running Time: 138 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1999

---

Related Items:

• Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
• Ripley's Game
• John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Special Collector's Edition)
• Cold Mountain (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
• The Good Shepherd (Widescreen Edition)
• see more

Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display

---

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
When dickies father a wealthy ship builder asks tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to america dickie and his beautiful expatriate girlfriend never suspect the dangerous extremes to which ripley will go to make their lifestyle his own. Its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Matt Damon Jude Law Run time: 139 minutes Rating: R Director: Anthony Minghella

Amazon.com:
"I feel like I've been handed a new life," says Tom Ripley at a crucial turning point of this well-cast, stylishly crafted psychological thriller. And indeed he has, because the devious, impoverished Ripley (played with subtle depth by Matt Damon) has just traded his own identity for that of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), the playboy heir to a shipping fortune who has become Ripley's model for a life worth living. Having been sent by Dickie's father to retrieve the errant son from Italy, Ripley has smoothly ingratiated himself with Dickey and his lovely, unsuspecting fiancée, Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow). In due course, the sheer evil of Ripley's amoral scheme will be revealed.

Superbly adapted from the acclaimed novel by Patricia Highsmith (also the basis of the acclaimed French version, Purple Noon), The Talented Mr. Ripley is writer-director Anthony Minghella's impressive follow-up to his Oscar-winning triumph The English Patient. Re-creating late-1950s Italy in exacting detail, the film captures the sensuousness of la dolce vita while suspensefully developing the fracturing of Ripley's mind as his crimes grow increasingly desperate. And where Hitchcock was necessarily discreet with the homosexual subtext of Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Minghella brings it out of the closet, increasing the dramatic tension and complexity of Ripley's psychological breakdown. Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Cate Blanchett are excellent in pivotal supporting roles, and the film's final image is utterly effective: Ripley's talents have gone too far, and this study of class distinction, obsession, and deadly desire reaches a disturbing yet richly appropriate conclusion. --Jeff Shannon




Rating: - Obsession, cunning, and the intense desire to possess another's identity, personality, and wealth
He's a poor young man surrounded by the idle rich. Tom Ripley, played by Matt Damon, happens into the wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf at a hotel party. Ripley is an all-around waiter and men's room attendant, who has donned a Princeton University Blazer to play piano for the guests. He is asked by Greenleaf if he knows his son, Dickie, who also attended Princeton, Class of 1958. You can almost see the wheels turning in Ripley's head as he answers yes! Thus begins the diabolical career of Mr. Ripley ... Read More

---

Rating: - The Beautiful Trajectory of a Total Sociopath
Just in case you reach the end of THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and wonder why you've become not just sympathetic but end up rooting for an amoral murderer: this story does an excellent job of leading you down the path to murder.

You begin by gaining sympathy for Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, an eager and personable enough guy who has a life of sad, grinding poverty. Through a bit of timing and chutzpah, he finds himself enlisted to go to Europe and persuade a rich kid to come home. The lazy world ... Read More

---

Rating: - Amazing performances
One of my favorite movies. Matt Damon's performance is perfect, Jude Law is wonderful and Gwyneth Paltrow is luminescent. It is mysterious, haunting, and thought provoking. The acting is intense and masterful and you cannot help but be drawn into the story. The complex layers of the characters are slowly revealed and wonderfully portrayed.

---

Rating: - THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
Wow! Matt Damon was awesome and of course Jude Law & Gwyneth were made to play these characters. The entire movie was wonderful start to finish. The scenery was magnificient! I will watch this movie over and over again. You never know what to expect on this thrill ride! Really enjoyable.

---

Rating: - RIPLEY'S 'BELIEVE IT OR NOT'
It would take pages to adequately describe this highly imaginative, provocative film.Suffice to say what this reviewer sees is an excellent piece of work by Law and Damon. augmented by a good supporting cast.Damon certainly gets more than he bargained for in trying to bring the fun loving, bi- sexual Law back to New York to see his reputable father. Damon becomes homosexuallly engaged with Law, a man who's already lost a drowned, pregnant mistress and is now engaged to Paltrow. ... Read More

---