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Ripley's Game (2002)
Directed by Liliana Cavani
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?
Rated R | Length 110 minutes
Actors
John Malkovich | Dougray Scott | Ray Winstone | Lena Headey | Chiara Caselli | Uwe Mansshardt | Hanns Zischler | Paolo Paoloni | Lutz Winde | Emidio La Vella | Evelina Meghnagi | Maurizio Lucà | Sam Blitz | Nikolaus Dutsch | Wilfried Zander | Hendrikje Fitz | Francesca Ventura | Jurij Rosstalnyj | Ronnie Paul | Thomas Bloem | Oliver Hanisch | Sönke Korries | René Lay