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Ripley Under Ground (also known as White on White[2]) is a 2005 German-British-French crime thriller film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and based on the 1970 second novel in Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley series. It stars Barry Pepper as Ripley and features Willem Dafoe, Alan Cumming and Tom Wilkinson in supporting roles.

Ripley Under Ground
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Directed by	Roger Spottiswoode
Written by	W. Blake Herron Donald E. Westlake
Based on	Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
Produced by	Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre Marco Mehlitz Michael Ohoven Stephen Ujlaki William Vince
Starring	Barry Pepper Jacinda Barrett Tom Wilkinson Willem Dafoe Alan Cumming Claire Forlani Ian Hart
Cinematography	Paul Sarossy
Edited by	Michel Arcand
Music by	Jeff Danna
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date	6 November 2005 (2005-11-06)
Running time	101 minutes
Countries	Germany France United Kingdom[1]
Language	English

Plot summary

After his friend, a successful young artist, is killed in a car accident, Tom Ripley (Pepper) and his friends hide his body and concoct a scheme in which they forge his paintings, eventually making a great deal of money. When an art collector (Dafoe) complains that a painting he bought from the gallery is a fake, Ripley must use his inimitable talents to defuse the problem by whatever means necessary.

Cast

• Barry Pepper as Tom Ripley
• Willem Dafoe as Neil Murchison
• Alan Cumming as Jeff Constant
• Tom Wilkinson as John Webster
• Jacinda Barrett as Héloïse Plisson
• Claire Forlani as Cynthia
• Ian Hart as Bernard Sayles
• Douglas Henshall as Philip Derwatt
• François Marthouret as Antoine Plisson

Release and reception

Ripley Under Ground was produced during July and August 2003,[2] but it was not released until two years later. The film was shown on the 2005 AFI Fest by American Film Institute. The film received a low-profile wide theatrical release on 6 November 2005,[3] as well as being shown at the AFI Fest film festival in Los Angeles. It was released on DVD on 24 July 2007 in the Netherlands.

Critical reviews have been scarce, owing to the smaller release.[4] Variety's review was less than positive, saying: "Although it strives to push Patricia Highsmith's best-known bad man in a snarky direction, Ripley Under Ground is too fidgety and unsure to settle on a sustained tone and ends up in a no man's land between hysterical satire and sleek Euro thriller. As previous filmic Ripleys demonstrated, from Purple Noon and The American Friend to The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley's Game, it's all in the casting, and the talented Mr. Barry Pepper is not capable of pulling off the demonically complicated and murderous con artist."[5]

References

External links

• Ripley Under Ground at IMDb
• Ripley Under Ground at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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[de] Ripley Under Ground (Film)

Ripley Under Ground (im deutschen Fernsehen auch unter dem Titel Mr. Ripley und die Kunst des Tötens ausgestrahlt[2]) ist ein US-amerikanisch-britisch-deutscher Thriller von Roger Spottiswoode aus dem Jahr 2005. Das Drehbuch von William Blake Herron und Donald E. Westlake beruht auf dem Roman Ripley Under Ground von Patricia Highsmith, mit dessen Motiven es sehr frei umgeht.

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- [en] Ripley Under Ground (film)

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[ru] Возвращение мистера Рипли

«Возвращение мистера Рипли» (англ. Ripley Under Ground) — американо-немецкий детективный триллер Роджера Споттисвуда 2005 года, снятый по роману Патриции Хайсмит, второму в серии о похождениях афериста Тома Рипли.

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