num_pages: 287
description: The complete screenplay of Anthony Minghella's new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 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 man's 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 Dickie's life and falls tragically in love with him. Dickie's 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 Minghella's absorbing film. Set throughout Italy (Ischia, Palermo, Rome, Tuscany and Venice), Minghella brings to life Highsmith's amoral tale of a criminal who gets away with murder.
language: English
title: The Talented Mr. Ripley
titlecomplete: The Talented Mr. Ripley (The Best Mysteries of All Time)
characters: Dickie Greenleaf, Freddie Miles, Marge Sherwood, Tom Ripley
genres: Fiction, Italy, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 85251
places: Venice, Rome, Italy, New York City, New York, Italian Riviera, Mongibello
series: Ripley
awards: awardedAt: -410198400000
name: Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
category: Romans étrangers, awardedAt: -441820800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Impress Mystery / Reader's Digest