Title: The Talented Mr. Ripley

Format: VHS

Attributes: Special Edition, Hi-Fi, Dolby, Full Screen

Genre: Mystery / Suspense

UPC: 097361560632

Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed Shrink Wrap

Region: NTSC (US, Canada...)

Rated: R

Original Language: English

Original Year: 1999

Closed Captions / Subtitle: English

Run Time: 139 minutes

Actor: John Bell, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gary Jones, Philip B. Hall, Sydney Pollack, Frank Slaten, Deirdre Lovejoy, Alessandro Fabrizi, Jack Davenport, Philip Baker Hall, James Rebhorn, Sergio Rubini, Celia Weston, Rosario Fiorello, Stefania Rocca, Ivano Marescotti, Anna Longhi, Lisa Eichhorn, Gretchen Egolf, Roy Walker, Jack Willis, Emanuele Carucci Viterbi, Gianfranco Barra, Renato Scarpa, Larry Kaplan, Brian Tarantina, Alessandra Vanzi, Pietro Ragusa

Director: Anthony Minghella

Producer: Tom Sternberg, William Horberg

VHS Release Date: 2000

Distributor/Studio: Paramount

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 fiancee, 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.