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Ripley's Game

# Older. Wiser. More Talented.

Crime Thriller

📜 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?

💵 Budget: USD 30,000,000

🌏 Languages Available: English

📆 Date Released: 2002-09-02

⌚ Running Time: 110 mins

⭐ Vote Average: 6.4