The Talented Mr. Ripley (The Best Mysteries of All Time)
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The complete screenplay of Anthony Minghellas new adaptation of Patricia Highsmiths THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY. Tom Ripley a small-time con man arrives in Italy from New York in search of a wealthy young man named Dickie Greenleaf. He has been sent by the young mans wealthy father to bring Dickie back to America. But once in Italy Ripley becomes so attracted to Greenleaf and his exotic lifestyle in the seaport village of Mongibello that Tom yearns to inhabit Dickies life and falls tragically in love with him. Dickies wealth style and good looks are qualities that Tom begins to covet. The frightening consequences of this attraction and the moral choices raised by the crime of murder lie at the heart of Minghellas absorbing film. Set throughout Italy (Ischia Palermo Rome Tuscany and Venice) Minghella brings to life Highsmiths amoral tale of a criminal who gets away with murder.
