The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder. new york city, friendship, ship, new love, lovesickness, jealousy, dual identity, double life, based on novel or book, venice, italy, beguilement, italy, homicide, yacht, secret identity, atlantic ocean, new identity, prosecution, fake identity, rejection, inferiority, inferiority complex, wealth, male homosexuality, envy, identity theft, gay theme, frightened
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