In late 1950's New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Europe to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
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.
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The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley
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The scenes set in New York City that open the film were originally shot in Rome but were deemed unsatisfactory and later reshot in New York City.
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Goofs
Revealing mistakes:
After the "other woman" floats ashore and is lying dead in the old woman's lap you see her spit water out after a wave goes over her face.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Tom Ripley:
If I could just go back... if I could rub everything out... starting with myself. See more »
Crazy Credits
The opening title uses all the adjectives of the complete title before
cutting to the final "The Talented Mr. Ripley".
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"MY FUNNY VALENTINE"
Written by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart Performed by Chet Baker Courtesy of Blue Note Records A Division of Capitol Records, Inc. Under license from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets
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