Ripley Under Ground
Roger Spottiswoode, 2005
Ripley Under Ground
Patricia Highsmith, 1970
Ripley Under Ground is a movie directed by Roger Spottiswoode in 2005 and based on the book of the same name by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1970. The movie features Barry Pepper, Jacinda Barrett, Ian Hart, Claire Forlani, Alan Cumming, Tom Wilkinson, and others.
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Storyline
After his friend, a successful young artist, is killed in a car accident, Tom Ripley 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 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.
Movie vs Book
Year
2005
Minutes
101
Movie Rate
6.00
Source: IMDb
Year
1970
Pages
288
Book Rate
7.46
S: Goodreads
Book
Ripley Under Ground
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Country: USA
First published in: 1970
Length: 288 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Ripley
User polls & recommendations
“I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.”
BRET EASTON ELLIS (Writer)
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