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Synopsis: 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? Luisa prepares for her concert.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Liliana Cavani
Production: New Line Cinema
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2002
110 min
Website
288 Views


- I bet, but eggs is eggs!

- Didn't I ask you to never

come near me? - Yes, you did.

Ever.

But I forgive you, Tom.

I trust you were not followed,

my liege?

- I told her to light a fire

in the library. - Lovely!

Remember those drawings in Berlin?

I made 400 grand

and you made several millions.

And here you are.

Professor Ripley's finishing school

nicely tucked away.

I like it.

Please.

Thank you.

You spent the money well.

Always.

There's a lot of wood.

Very flammable!

Oh sh*t! Bit of greaseproof

and a hot iron should do that.

I'll sort it out for you later.

"Squisito"!

I like your wife, she hates me, so

she's a good woman, you're lucky.

I don't know what I dislike more,

your admiration or your envy.

- It's not envy, I'm doing all right.

- Great!

- I've three clubs and

a restaurant in Berlin. - Great.

Business is good and I don't pay

one penny for protection.

Tell me what you want or a truffling

pig will find you dead somewhere

in a month or two.

Let me tell you something, Tom.

I've got some problem neighbours,

business competitors

that need deregulating.

But I can't be seen to be involved.

Everyone knows everyone in Berlin.

Who died, who did it.

Who's next.

If I want to play it safe, I need

someone who's not connected.

- And you want me to do it?

- Yes.

- Why me?

- Somebody's got to do it.

An outsider ideally, but someone

who knows how to play the game.

Even somebody who's been

on the sidelines for a while.

Why not someone

who's never played?

- 50 grand's a lot for an amateur.

- lnnocence is expensive.

Once you've digested, avail yourself

of one of our lovely local hotels.

You're an arrogant bastard.

Always was, always will be.

- Why was he here?

- He wants me to kill someone.

- Why did he ask you?

- Because I can.

I know you can, silly.

You can sew too.

- Why does he want this person

killed? - I assume he's desperate.

His restaurants are failing,

his nightclub's in freefall.

He's involved in some

squalid turf war.

You can't do that. Run off

to Berlin to assassinate people.

He's a fantasist,

I'm not as assassin.

- How was the party?

- Smashing.

I knew you'd hate it.

Isn't it sad about him?

- Who? - The picture framer.

He's got leukaemia.

- Is drunken pomposity a symptom?

- No.

He's just English.

He's very ill, Tom, he's dying.

It's a shame.

Is it?

Reeves?

I've been reflecting on your problem.

Your talent search.

I might have come up

with someone.

He's as innocent

as a newborn lamb.

I think under all that soft,

white fleece, he might be capable.

- Jonathan Trevanny.

- My name's Peter Wister.

I work for a European

head-hunting agency.

We offer highly lucrative

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Charles McKeown

Charles McKeown ( mə-KEW-ən; born 1946) is a British actor and writer, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Terry Gilliam. The two met while shooting Monty Python's Life of Brian, while McKeown was doing bit parts in the film. more…

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