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The Talented Mr. Ripley(1999)
Released
1999 · FILM

The Talented Mr. Ripley

A charming con artist is hired to lure an affluent playboy back to America, but when he assumes the man’s identity and immerses himself in his decadent Italian life, he must navigate deadly jealousy and a spiraling web of deception to protect his new persona at any cost.

“How far would you go to become someone else.”

Directed by
Anthony Minghella, Emma Schofield
Written by
Patricia Highsmith, Anthony Minghella
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
139 min
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it is better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. An opportunity arises when a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder hires Tom to travel to Italy and bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley ingratiates himself into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, eventually embarking on a daring scheme involving duplicity, lies, and murder.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 499+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Walter MurchShot by John SealeScored by Gabriel YaredDesigned by Roy WalkerSound by Mark Berger Nm0074281Costumes by Gary Jones Nm0428105Stunts by Alessandro NovelliVFX by Dennis Lowe

Box Office

1999 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$128.8M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$128.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $81.3M — 63% of worldwide · International: $47.5M (37%)

Opening weekend: $12.7M — 16% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $27.4M — 34% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,307 theaters

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Also known as

  • Der talentierte Mr. Ripleyde
  • Le Talentueux Mr. Ripleyfr
  • Il talento di Mr. Ripleyit
  • (French)Mr. Ripley
  • (Bulgarian)Талантливият Мистър Рипли
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesDec 12, 1999
  • CanadaDec 25, 1999
  • GermanyFeb 13, 2000

Companies

ProductionMiramax, Paramount Pictures, Mirage Enterprises

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