The Talented Mr. Ripley is a Matt Damon and Jude Law film about the spectrum of honesty in friendship and love relationships, as well as its vices of Transparency and Chicanery, and you can see ample information about it below. It is available for a small fee on the web.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Crime, Drama, Thriller | 139min | 25 December 1999 (USA)
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Director: Anthony MinghellaWriter: Patricia Highsmith, Anthony MinghellaStars: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude LawSummary: 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 fiancée, 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.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
- -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.