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Patricia Highsmith found new audiences with the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley . In a twist of fate Highsmith might have appreciated, she didn’t live long enough to enjoy the acclaim. Director Anthony Minghella’s adaptation reintroduced Tom Ripley, a character from several art house films and the antihero of a series of novels written by Highsmith from the ‘50s through the ‘90s. Ripley is a talented mimic who clings with deadly tenacity to the high life he discovered. Perhaps he’s a sociopath? Maybe a young man with a wobbly moral compass who got himself into a tight jam? He’s a killer when threatened but somehow, through the power of Highsmith’s characterization, we find ourselves rooting for him as he escapes the consequences.

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