“ Ripley's Game ” is a 2002 dramatic thriller based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (the third in a series) with John Malkovich starring as a con man Tom Ripley . The director was a veteran of Italian cinema Liliana Cavani , whose career began in the 1960s. Cavani became famous for the infamous Night Porter movie. Previously, based on the same book, the 1977 film “ American Friend ” by Wim Wenders was staged.
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| Genre | crime film drama thriller |
| Producer | Liliana Cavani |
| Producer | Simon Bosanket Marco Chimentz Cam galano |
| Author script | Liliana Cavani Charles McKuhan |
| In the main cast | John Malkovich Dougray Scott Ray Winston Lina Headey |
| Operator | Alfio Contini |
| Composer | Ennio Morricone |
| Film company | Baby films Cattleya Mr. Mudd |
| Duration | 110 minutes |
| A country |  USA  United Kingdom  Italy |
| Language | English |
| Year | 2002 |
| IMDb | ID 0265651 |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Soundtrack
- 4 References
Story
Tom Ripley lives in Italy and is engaged in fraud associated with works of art. Ripley collaborates with an English gangster named Reeves. One of the deals is not going according to plan and Ripley kills the client’s bodyguard. Tom takes pictures to himself, and gives the assigned money to Reeves, warning that their collaboration has ended.
Three years later, Ripley, an incredibly wealthy man who lives in Italy with his wife Louise, is invited to a party at his neighbor, where he accidentally hears his boss Jonathan Trevanni calling him an American snob. After a small argument with Trevani, Ripley leaves the party.
Suddenly, Reeves reappears on the horizon, asking Ripley to kill someone. Then Ripley directs Reeves to Trevani, dying of leukemia . Reeves turns to Trevanni, and he decides to leave his earned money to his wife Sarah and his son Matthew after his death.
Trevanni arrives in Berlin , where he must carry out this business, full of confidence that everything will be over soon. However, Reeves has other plans for him - he begins to blackmail Trevanni, forcing to commit another crime: murder on a train. Now Ripley intervenes ...
After several murders committed on a train, Trevanni returns home to Italy, where he tells Sarah that he received the money through his participation in medical research.
Soon, people who worked for the man killed by Trevani come to Italy in search of a killer, find and kill Reeves, after which they besiege Ripley’s villa, and Ripley and Trevanni have to fight off the criminals.
Sarah is horrified when she finds out the whole truth, and then two more killers come to their house, but Ripley saves the Trevanni family in time. However, Jonathan has to sacrifice his life to save Ripley in a shootout. Puzzled by Trevanni Ripley's action, she is going to give Sarah a share of her husband's money, but the woman spits Ripley in the face.
That evening, Tom goes to Louise’s concert and enjoys beautiful music, as if nothing had happened ...
Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| John Malkovich | Tom Ripley |
| Dougray Scott | Jonathan Trevanni |
| Ray Winston | Reeves |
| Lina Headey | Sarah Trevanni |
| Chiara Caselli | Louise |
Soundtrack
The music for the film was written by composer Ennio Morricone . On the official album 13 tracks were released:
- In concerto
- II Cinismo Di Ripley
- Louise
- Primo treno
- II Gioco Di Ripley
- Berlino, Una Sera
- Diagnosi
- Collage per ripley
- Doppiezza
- Un regalo
- Secondo treno
- In registrazione
- Collage per ripley
Links
- Ripley's Game on the Internet Movie Database
- Ripley's Game on Rotten Tomatoes
- Two Faces of Ripley - A Comparison of Films American Friend and Ripley's Game