The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Rating: R

Release Date: Dec 25, 1999

Running Time: 139 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, James Rebhorn, Sergio Rubini, Philip Baker Hall, Celia Weston

director: Anthony Minghella

To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s; that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley craves--and Dickie Greenleaf leads. When Dickie's father, a wealthy ship builder, asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful ex-patriate girlfriend, Marge Sherwood, never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make their lifestyle his own. After all, it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Don't let the trailers mislead you: ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' is not about a young, handsome man whose obsession with a blond beauty leads him to kill a rival and stalk her in movie-of-the-week-type scenarios.

In fact, it's as far from movie-of-the week material as you can get. Directed superbly by Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella (''The English Patient''), ''Ripley'' is a smart yet unsettling story of identity, executed by a group of actors likely to win the film a Most…