The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a
Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the
wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom
pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to
Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy,
Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured
fiancee, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes
as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include
impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident
Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to
extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.

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