Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

Matt Damon
as Tom Ripley

Gwyneth Paltrow
as Marge Sherwood

Jude Law
as Dickie Greenleaf

Cate Blanchett
as Meredith Logue

Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Freddie Miles

Jack Davenport
as Peter Smith-Kingsley

James Rebhorn
as Herbert Greenleaf

Sergio Rubini
as Inspector Roverini

Philip Baker Hall
as Alvin MacCarron

Celia Weston
as Aunt Joan
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With his son off galavanting around Europe, the wealthy "Greenleaf" (James Rebhorn) happens upon the eponymous character (Matt Damon) whom he charges with travelling - first class - to track down "Dickie" (Jude Law) and bring him home. He manages an introduction to his quarry, and his girlfriend "Ma...