Ripley's Game
Older. Wiser. More Talented.
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.
- Director
- Liliana Cavani
- Worldwide
- $6M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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?
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Ripley's Game returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $30M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $6M
- Release date
- Sep 2, 2002
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, Italy
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