The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) ( Eclipse ) ( The Strange Mr. Ripley )

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Eclipse
Alternate Title: The Strange Mr. Ripley
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby TrueHD )
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby TrueHD )
Spanish ( DTS 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Anthony Minghella

Written By:
Patricia Highsmith
Anthony Minghella

Actors:
Matt Damon ..... Tom Ripley
Gwyneth Paltrow ..... Marge Sherwood
Jude Law ..... Dickie Greenleaf
Cate Blanchett ..... Meredith Logue
Philip Seymour Hoffman ..... Freddie Miles
Jack Davenport ..... Peter Smith-Kingsley
James Rebhorn ..... Herbert Greenleaf
Sergio Rubini ..... Inspector Roverini
Philip Baker Hall ..... Alvin MacCarron
Celia Weston ..... Aunt Joan
Fiorello ..... Fausto
Stefania Rocca ..... Silvana
Ivano Marescotti ..... Colonnello Verrecchia
Anna Longhi ..... Signora Buffi
Alessandro Fabrizi ..... Sergeant Baggio
Lisa Eichhorn ..... Emily Greenleaf
Gretchen Egolf ..... Fran
Jack Willis ..... Greenleaf Chaffeur
Frederick Alexander Bosche ..... Fran's Boyfriend
Dario Bergesio ..... Police Officer
Larry Kaplan ..... Uncle Ted
Claire Hardwick ..... Gucci Assistant
Antonio Prester ..... American Express Clerk (as Nino Prester)
Lorenzo Mancuso ..... Bus Driver
Onofrio Mancuso ..... Priest
Massimo Reale ..... Immigration Officer
Emanuele Carucci Viterbi ..... American Express Clerk
Caterina Deregibus ..... Dahlia (as Caterina De Regibus)
Silvana Bosi ..... Ermelinda
Gianfranco Barra ..... Desk Manager Aldo
Renato Scarpa ..... Tailor
Deirdre Lovejoy ..... Fighting Neighbor
Brian Tarantina ..... Fighting Neighbor
Guy Barker ..... Trumpet (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Bernardo Sassetti ..... Piano (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Perico Sambeat ..... Alto Sax (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Gene Calderazzo ..... Drums (Napoli Jazz Septet) mer
Joseph Lepore ..... Double Bass (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Rosario Giuliuni ..... Tenor Sax (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Eddy Palerno ..... Electric Guitar (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Byron Wallen ..... Cornet (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Pete King ..... Alto Sax (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Clark Tracey ..... Drums (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Jean Toussaint ..... Tenor Sax (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Geoff Gascoyne ..... Bass (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Carlo Negroni ..... Piano (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Beppe Fiorello ..... Silvana's Fiancé
Marco Quaglia ..... Silvana's Brother
Alessandra Vanzi ..... Silvana's Mother
Marco Rossi ..... Photographer
Roberto Valentini ..... Onegin (Eugene Onegin Player)
Francesco Bovino ..... Lensky (Eugene Onegin Player)
Stefano Canettieri ..... Zaretsky (Eugene Onegin Player)
Marco Foti ..... Guillot (Eugene Onegin Player)
Ludovica Tinghi ..... Fausto's Fiancée
Nicola Pannelli ..... Dinelli's Cafe Waiter
Paolo Calabresi ..... Customs Officer
Pietro Ragusa ..... Record Store Owner
Simone Empler ..... Boy Singer
Gianluca Secci ..... Policeman
Manuel Ruffini ..... Policeman
Pierpaolo Lovino ..... Policeman
Roberto Di Palma ..... San Remo Hotel Desk Clerk

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 fiancée, 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.

There are diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look in this glittering thriller. Proving that the brilliance of 'The English Patient' was no fluke, Anthony Minghella shapes a hypnotic, sensually charged adaptation of Patricia High smith's fascinatingly reptilian murder story. The traffic-stopping cast includes Matt Damon as the dangerous chameleon of the title and, in a star-making role, the English actor Jude Law as a rich dilettante who exerts a homoerotic magnetism. Gwyneth Paltrow plays the odd woman out with the shrewdness of a fine character actress, while Cate Blanchett makes the delirious most of her role as a needy American post-debutante. As the story's odious playboy-snob, Philip Seymour Hoffman is scene-stealingly wonderful. Gorgeously photographed in Italy by John Seale.

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 (Matt Damon) craves - and Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) 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 expatriate girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make their lifestyle his own. After all, it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody...

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 August, 2021.