Ripley's Game
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Ripley's Game

2002Movie1 h 50 minR

CrimeThriller
79
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb6.6Letterboxd3.4/5Rotten Tomatoes92%67%
79
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb6.6Letterboxd3.4/5Rotten Tomatoes92%67%

Summary

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.

Good for

  • Date night
  • Friends night
  • Thought-provoking

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  • Puts you inside a crime.
  • Feels like real life.
  • Keeps you on edge.
  • Pulls you in.
  • Keeps you guessing.

Not for warmth, laughs or comfort.

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Tropes

Adaptation Amalgamationin 204 titlesDownplayed Trope. As with The American Friend, this film includes a scene at the start involving art forgeries, which is the main focus of the previous book in the Ripliad, Ripley Under Ground.Adaptation Relationship Overhaulin 463 titlesIn the book, Tom and Reeves get along fairly well. Tom does occasional work for him and Reeves helps him out in Ripley Under Ground, the previous book.All 23 tropes

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