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| The Talented Mr Ripley [1999] | ![The Talented Mr Ripley [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S729BTXQL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Anthony Minghella
Actors: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Davenport
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 8414
Format: Closed-captioned, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 139 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
EAN: 5017186110350
ASIN: B00004VVR2
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: December 4, 2000
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Condition: VHS video (UK PAL FORMAT). very good condition, with original case, etc. VHS UK format. Sent within 1 working day by trusted UK Seller always available by email to answer any queries and will always do our upmost to help.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
"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 Dickie and his lovely, unsuspecting fiancee, 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. Recreating late-1950s Italy in exacting detail, the film captures the sensuousness of la dolce vita while 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, Amazon.com
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Certainly worth a watch but not sure if it was worth all its praise September 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Intricate story of a social climber's climb up the ladder. It looks a bit far fetched, but it is fiction. The best thing I can say about it is its casting. Paltrow's very good here as a Grace Kellyesque young American socialite engaged to a rich kid rake who charms everyone with his exuberant, slightly roguish personality. Law is perfect for the part and is superb. Along comes Damon on a secret mission paid for by Law's disapproving industrialist father, and blows his cover almost immediately, but finds instant approval from the rebellious, fun loving Law. But Law soon finds his intensity and his clinginess a bit unsettling, and...a story of complictations follows. Damon also very good, as is Blanchet and Seymour Hoffman, but the tricky scenarios and set ups start to look a little unbelievable by the end of a rather long movie. Could have done with being cut by half an hour or having a different ending. You have to ask, why didn't he clear off with the money after finally convincing the police and Law's father with his story, instead of hang around with the very people he knew could compromise him. Clever story, but far fetched.
 Fails to gel March 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the first reading of Highsmith's novel I felt she was a minor genius in evoking both the mind of a deeply disturbed character and the divided society of high elegance and low misery in which he moved and from which he was alienated. Was the split in his mind or the society's? Surely both. For years Holywood seemingly "bottled" out of confronting the issue as it avoided Highsmith's most masterly opus. This film was eagerly awaited. Disappointingly the whole comes to less than the sum of its parts. The locations and period values are stunning. The direction is considered. The essence of Highsmith's novel sporadically peeps through some of the acting. Yet the final article fails to convince. Damon and Law are too unsubtle and lack the chemistry to realize the homoerotic undercurrent essential to the evolution of the plot. The characters fail to fit within the lovingly evoked '50s settings. It felt weirdly as though 21st century characters were transplanted into a 1950s milieu. The "spirit" of the acting failed to coalesce with the externals. The departures from the novel merely contributed to the diffusion of the plot and the unconvincing ending. I can empathize with other reviewers who thought the film went on too long....from the point at which, I believe, it departed from the understated tension of the novel to overdramatize Ripley's anti-heroic personality. One of the strengths of the novel lay in suggesting how precisely such an understated and chameleon personality as Ripley's could literally "get away" with murder by (unconsciously or instinctively, perhaps) taking advantage of his society's readiness or need to turn a blind eye where elegant appearance conflicted with bloody reality. The overwhelming feeling at the end of this film is that this character could never have got away with it. So - good in parts, I feel; but we still await the definitive English version of Highsmith's 'magnum opus' on film.
 Stylish locations & an enthralling plot. March 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an intelligent & captivating film which is based upon the art of deception & thinking on your feet.
Set in the 1950's ,a time when the world was simpler & less commercial, it captures the wonderful decadence of post war Italy & the way that an outsider, Tom Ripley, worms his way into a world that is way above his station.
It's well acted & has the plot develops at steady pace. Recommended
interesting July 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I like this film a lot.
I am not at all a fan of gwyneth paltrow and jude law too is an actor whose presence has often kept me from watching certain movies. The same goes for cate blanchet. I found all of them rather good in this one.
Philip Seymor Hoffmans presence does the oposite and in this film too, he is excellent,almost as creepy as matt damons character, ripley, he adds to the athmosphere very well. Matt Damon is excellent in this film.
I really enjoyed it.
The only funny thing was spotting the cover of "tutu" a miles davis album released in'86.
The Talented Matt Damon May 22, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Talented Mr Ripley is an unusual film, an eerie tale of jealousy, violence, loneliness, and desperation. Tom Ripley is a man who has, in his own mind, no self worth, no identity, and no substance. His ideas of life and existence depend on how he is perceived by others, and when that is no longer good enough..... Matt Damon is superb as the shy, self effacing Tom Ripley, an outwardly timid, unassuming man who shows little sign of what lurks beneath his pleasant front. Jude Law is also great as the vain, fickle Dickie Greenleaf, the rich boy who befriends Tom, and Gwyneth Paltrow also shines through as the loveable Marge, Dickie's girlfriend. Fans of the Patricia Highsmith novels will not be disappointed, as Anthony Minghella has superbly crafted her excellent literary prose onto the screen. This must also be one of the most skillfully shot movies of recent times, the scenery is fantastic and seldom has Italy been portrayed as such a beautiful country. This movie is definitely worth watching. It is becoming increasingly rare for movies to evoke serious emotions within the viewer, and with The Talented Mr Ripley, there are many occasions where these such emotions are aroused. A very good film.
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