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 fiancée, 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.

Tom has homoerotic hopes towards Dickie.
Tom kills Freddie with a bust of the Roman emperor Hadrian who had a gay lover who was killed.

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Tom: I always thought it'd be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Tom: If I could just go back... if I could rub everything out... starting with myself.

Dickie: Everybody has got to have a talent, what's yours?
Tom: Telling lies, forging signatures and impersonating almost anybody.

Herbert: To me, jazz is just noise. Insolent noise.

Dickie: You know, without the glasses you're not even ugly.

Tom: I really feel happy. As if I had been granted a new lease in life.

Tom: [imitating Dickie's father] "To me, jazz is noise. Insolent noise."
Dickie: Wow! Cut it out! It's so spooky, my hair's on end!

Tom: You're the brother I never had. I'm the brother you never had. I would do anything for you, Dickie.

Tom: Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it, in your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person.

Marge: The thing with Dickie... it's like the sun shines on you, and it's glorious. And then he forgets you and it's very, very cold.
Tom: So I'm learning.
Marge: When you have his attention, you feel like you're the only person in the world, that's why everybody loves him so much.

Dickie: Now you'll find out why Ms. Sherwood shows up for breakfast, Tom. It's not love, it's my coffee machine.

Dickie: "See Venice and die," is what they say? Or is it Rome?

Herbert: People say that you can't choose your parents, but you know you can't choose your children either.

Tom: I could live Dickie's life for him.

Freddie: God, don't you want to fuck every woman you see at least once?

Marge: Why is it that when boys play, they play at killing each other?

Dickie: I could fuck this ice box, I love it so much.

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