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Ripley's Game

Ripley's Game

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 2, 2002

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Crime, Thriller

User Score

64%

Original Title

Ripley's Game

Production Companies

Mr. Mudd, Baby Films, Cattleya

Director

Liliana Cavani

Budget

$30,000,000

Revenue

$6,200,000

Description

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?