The Talented Mr. Ripley / School Ties, DVD

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Closed Caption; The Talented Mr. Ripley:; Commentary by director Anthony Minghella; Reflections on the Talented Mr. Ripley - Cast & crew interviews; Inside the Talented Mr. Ripley soundtrack; Music video: "My Funny Valentine"; Music video: "Tu Vu� F� L'Americano"; 2 theatrical trailers; Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 tvs

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Disc #1 -- Talented Mr. Ripley
1. Borrowed Jacket [:33]
2. Partners in Disquise [7:25]
3. Coincidence [:55]
4. Three Talents of Tom Ripley [1:13]
5. "Bird" [4:11]
6. Double Agent [3:59]
7. Mysterious Mr. Ripley [3:46]
8. Sightseeing [2:02]
9. A Corduroy Jacket in Italy [5:00]
10. Festival of Madonna [3:34]
11. Confession [4:52]
12. San Remo [5:09]
13. Apology [2:29]
14. New Beginning [3:53]
15. Evening at the Opera [3:00]
16. Chance Meeting [6:37]
17. So Bourgeois [4:53]
18. Police Inquiry [5:18]
19. Tom's Return [:08]
20. Dickie's Letter [6:32]
21. Friendship [:24]
22. Suspicion [3:41]
23. Silent Promise [1:18]
24. A Fake Somebody, a Real Nobody [6:35]
25. End Credits [4:18]
Disc #2 -- School Ties
1. Good-Byes [9:13]
2. Welcome to St. Mathew's [3:18]
3. Mr. Cleary [6:52]
4. New Face on the Varsity [4:59]
5. Breaking Traditions [1:03]
6. Sink or Swim [5:37]
7. Sally Wheeler [2:15]
8. Au Revoir McGiven [2:04]
9. Payback [1:04]
10. Secret Weapon [7:07]
11. Great White Hope [4:52]
12. The Joke [4:56]
13. "Cowards" [2:13]
14. The One Important Thing [4:48]
15. Honor Code [3:30]
16. Tribunal [6:09]
17. Confession [2:13]

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An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan Fraser stars as David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is offered a senior year scholarship to a prestigious New England academy. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his Rust Belt hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence about his faith as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship with his roommate Chris Reece (Chris O'Donnell) and a possible romance with Sally Wheeler (Amy Locane), a student at a nearby girls' school. When jealous classmate Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon) learns David's secret at an alumni party, he exposes the school's new gridiron hero, and David faces the full force of religious intolerance from the prejudiced WASP institution. Also featuring early performances from Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, and Cole Hauser, School Ties was loosely based on the real-life experiences of producer Dick Wolf, creator of TV's popular series Law & Order. Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan Fraser stars as David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is offered a senior year scholarship to a prestigious New England academy. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his Rust Belt hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence about his faith as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship with his roommate Chris Reece (Chris O'Donnell) and a possible romance with Sally Wheeler (Amy Locane), a student at a nearby girls' school. When jealous classmate Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon) learns David's secret at an alumni party, he exposes the school's new gridiron hero, and David faces the full force of religious intolerance from the prejudiced WASP institution. Also featuring early performances from Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, and Cole Hauser, School Ties was loosely based on the real-life experiences of producer Dick Wolf, creator of TV's popular series Law & Order. Karl Williams

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After the Oscar-winning The English Patient, writer/director Anthony Minghella attempted another tricky literary adaptation with The Talented Mr. Ripley, which features heartthrob Matt Damon cast against type as a psychopathic bisexual murderer. Tom Ripley (Damon) is a bright and charismatic sociopath who makes his way in mid-'50s New York City as a men's room attendant and sometimes pianist, though his real skill is in impersonating other people, forging handwriting, and running second-rate scams. After being mistaken for a Princeton student, Tom meets the shipping tycoon father of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), who has traveled to the coast of Italy, where he's living a carefree life with his father's money and his beautiful girlfriend, Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow). Dickie's father will pay Ripley 1,000 dollars plus his expenses if he can persuade Dickie to return to America. As Ripley and Dickie become friends, Tom finds himself both attracted to Dickie and envious of his life of pleasure. In time, he decides that he would rather be Dickie Greenleaf than Tom Ripley, so rather than go back to his life of poverty, Ripley impulsively murders Dickie and assumes his identity. The Talented Mr. Ripley was based on the first of a series of novels featuring Tom Ripley written by Patricia Highsmith; the story was previously filmed in 1960 as Purple Noon, with Alain Delon as Ripley. Mark Deming

UPC: 097361320946
Source: PARAMOUNT
Region Code: 1
Presentation: Wide Screen
Language: English
Time: 4:05:00
Sales Rank: 46,867

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Features:

Closed Caption; The Talented Mr. Ripley:; Commentary by director Anthony Minghella; Reflections on the Talented Mr. Ripley - Cast & crew interviews; Inside the Talented Mr. Ripley soundtrack; Music video: "My Funny Valentine"; Music video: "Tu Vu� F� L'Americano"; 2 theatrical trailers; Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 tvs

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Talented Mr. Ripley
1. Borrowed Jacket [:33]
2. Partners in Disquise [7:25]
3. Coincidence [:55]
4. Three Talents of Tom Ripley [1:13]
5. "Bird" [4:11]
6. Double Agent [3:59]
7. Mysterious Mr. Ripley [3:46]
8. Sightseeing [2:02]
9. A Corduroy Jacket in Italy [5:00]
10. Festival of Madonna [3:34]
11. Confession [4:52]
12. San Remo [5:09]
13. Apology [2:29]
14. New Beginning [3:53]
15. Evening at the Opera [3:00]
16. Chance Meeting [6:37]
17. So Bourgeois [4:53]
18. Police Inquiry [5:18]
19. Tom's Return [:08]
20. Dickie's Letter [6:32]
21. Friendship [:24]
22. Suspicion [3:41]
23. Silent Promise [1:18]
24. A Fake Somebody, a Real Nobody [6:35]
25. End Credits [4:18]
Disc #2 -- School Ties
1. Good-Byes [9:13]
2. Welcome to St. Mathew's [3:18]
3. Mr. Cleary [6:52]
4. New Face on the Varsity [4:59]
5. Breaking Traditions [1:03]
6. Sink or Swim [5:37]
7. Sally Wheeler [2:15]
8. Au Revoir McGiven [2:04]
9. Payback [1:04]
10. Secret Weapon [7:07]
11. Great White Hope [4:52]
12. The Joke [4:56]
13. "Cowards" [2:13]
14. The One Important Thing [4:48]
15. Honor Code [3:30]
16. Tribunal [6:09]
17. Confession [2:13]

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