Tom Ripley takes up the job to convince Dickie Greenleaf to come back home from Italy but ends up becoming obsessed with his lifestyle to the point of mimicking and assuming the identity of Dickie ...

Andrew Scott is Tom Ripley in the Netflix Original series Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith's popular crime novels, which have previously been adapted for the screen in movies like Purple Noon ...

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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 ...