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Anthony Minghella: A Filmography

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999)
The setting is a sun-drenched late-'50s Italy where an impoverished Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), having passed himself off as an upper-crust Princeton grad, has been dispatched by a wealthy New York businessman to bring home his indolent playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law). Enchanted by Dickie (and who wouldn't be — Law, in a star-making performance, is the sexually magnetic center of every scene he's in), Tom becomes a favored playmate of his wanton new friend. When the two exhilarated, sweat-shiny Americans get down in a smoky Italian jazz joint, it's a cinch to feel the boy-to-boy crackle in the air.... Minghella makes an enticing, intelligent, well-shaped picture about the extreme perils of class envy and sexual panic. —from Lisa Schwarzbaum's 1999 A- review of The Talented Mr. Ripley