Ripley's Game (2002) is a feature film based on the 1974 novel of the same name; the third in Patricia Highsmith's "Ripliad," a series of books chronicling the murderous adventures of con artist Tom Ripley. John Malkovich stars as Highsmith's anti-hero, with Dougray Scott as Jonathan Trevanny and Ray Winstone as Reeves.
The director is the veteran Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, whose career dates back to the 1960s and includes one of the 1970s...
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Ripley's Game (2002) is a feature film based on the 1974 novel of the same name; the third in Patricia Highsmith's "Ripliad," a series of books chronicling the murderous adventures of con artist Tom Ripley. John Malkovich stars as Highsmith's anti-hero, with Dougray Scott as Jonathan Trevanny and Ray Winstone as Reeves.
The director is the veteran Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, whose career dates back to the 1960s and includes one of the 1970s' most controversial movies, The Night Porter.
Ripley (Malkovich) is living in Italy and is involved in an art scam in Berlin, partnered with Reeves (Winstone), a British gangster whom he leaves out on the street as the deal goes down. A violent argument breaks out in which Ripley kills one of his "customers" and takes the money for himself, curtly informing Reeves that their partnership is over.
Ripley returns to the Italian villa he shares with his wife Luisa (Chiara Caselli), a beautiful harpsichordist. Invited to a party by a neighbor,...
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