THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY [1999]

How Far Would You Go To Become Someone Else

If I could just go back... if I could rub everything out... starting with myself.

[Tom Ripley]

[Dickie Greenleaf]: Everybody should have one talent, what's yours? 

[Tom Ripley]: Forging signatures, telling lies... impersonating practically anybody.

[Dickie Greenleaf]: That's three, nobody should have more than one talent. 

[Tom Ripley]: Don't you just take the past, and put it in a room in the basement, and lock the door and never go in there? 

That's what I do. 

[Peter]: God, yes. Though in my case, it's probably a whole building.

Good things about Mr. Ripley? Could take some time. 

Tom is talented. Tom is tender. Tom is beautiful. Tom is a mystery. Tom is not a nobody. 

Tom has secrets he doesn't want to tell me, and I wish he would. 

Tom has nightmares. That's not a good thing. 

Tom has someone to love him. That is a good thing. 

Tom is crushing me. Tom is crushing me... Tom, you're crushing me! 

[Peter]

You know, people always say that you can't choose your parents, 

but you can't choose your children... 

[Herbert Greenleaf]

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