The Talented Mr Ripley

Anthony Minghella's first film since his Oscar-winning The English Patient is another classy adaptation. This time round he's chosen writer Patricia Highsmith's first novel to feature creepy, compelling, social climbing schizo Tom Ripley. Highsmith provided the source for Hitchcock's wonderful Strangers On A Train, and this is a very similar psycho-logical thriller, involving social envy, repressed homosexuality, murder and a twisting plot which isn't so much a whodunit? as a willhegetawaywithit?

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