Word: jude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...southern Italy, Minghella's tantalizing movie captures the pulse, temperature and texture of the idle rich at play and the yearning of Ripley, who wants that good life so much he'd kill for it. Inhabiting this very dolce vita is a quintet of smart-looking young performers--Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jack Davenport--giving vigorous life and fine shading to roles of wealth or breeding. They parade their star quality (or supporting-actor quality) not by screaming and cussing Method style but by radiating an unforced glamour that recalls Hollywood in its Golden...
...RIPLEY Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) would rather "be a fake somebody than a real nobody." So he pursues a fatal game of pretense in Anthony Minghella's devious twist on the Patricia Highsmith crime novel about patrician indolence and underclass yearning. In a handsome cast, no one can touch Jude Law for golden gorgeousness with an undercoat of sadism...
...update this compelling tale of 1950's class envy and blossoming psychosis. The outlines of the story are the same in both versions: Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a poor, smart chameleon, comes to Italy under false pretenses and insinuates himself into the wealthy life of prodigal Dickie "Ouch!" Greenleaf (Jude Law). Dickie's not always as naughty as the name suggests, but sometimes he's far worse. Jude Law is the consummate self-involved prick; he's best when playing dissipated rich boys like the wheelchair-bound himbo in Gattaca, men who would loathe themselves if they would take...
...when the man finished, he raised both hands toward Judas and said, "Jude, go to your father now; he'll need you for the planting. The others won't harm you; I'll warn them off." The man's upright hands were pierced with deep wounds, just below the palms...
City Hall Plaza: Ben Folds Five, Dido, Duran Duran, Ellis Paul, Fleming & John, Jeremy Toback, Jude, NRBQ, Thisway, Train, Vonda Shepard...