Ripley's Game

Ripley's Game

2002 · 1 hr 50 min · R

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Directors

Liliana Cavani

Actors

  • John Malkovich
  • Dougray Scott
  • Lena Headey

Credits: 7

Summary

A dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.

More about this movie

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? Luisa prepares for her concert.