Ripley's Game
“Older. Wiser. More Talented.”
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?
A chillingly sophisticated game of manipulation unfolds in picturesque European locales. It's a tense, morally ambiguous thriller where greed and desperation drive characters to their breaking points. The atmosphere is thick with suspense and a sense of inevitable doom.
