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?
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Verdict: Flop
> Liliana Cavani (Director)
> Alfio Contini (Director of Photography)
> Ludovica Barbieri (Third Assistant Director)
> Diego D'Andrea (Third Assistant Director)
> Laura Lackmann (Third Assistant Director)
> Daniela Merlo (Assistant Director)
> Francesca Polic Greco (Second Assistant Director)
> Karin Scherer (Second Assistant Director)
> Fabrizio Sergenti Castellani (First Assistant Director)
> Simonetta Valentini (Second Assistant Director)
> Patricia Highsmith (Novel)
> Liliana Cavani (Screenplay)
> Charles McKeown (Screenplay)