Overview
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?
Cast
- John Malkovich as Tom Ripley
- Dougray Scott as Jonathan Trevanny
- Ray Winstone as Reeves
- Lena Headey as Sarah Trevanny
- Chiara Caselli as Luisa Harari
- Uwe Mansshardt as Terry
- Hanns Zischler as Art Dealer
- Paolo Paoloni as Franco
- Lutz Winde as Ernst
- Emidio La Vella as Shoe Store Owner