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The Talented Mr. Ripley Deceives the Cinephile Hissy Fit

Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, marvel at those movie moments where you see pure stars being born. The Talented Mr. Ripley is a film chock full of those events for a bevy of actors who went on to become a f ew of their generation’s icons and leading performers. Sure, folks may have seen Matt Damon, Jude Law, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cate Blanchett, and Gwyneth Paltrow in other movies before that particular 1999 potboiler, but to see all of them have showy star-making moments in the same movie is something special.

The cover photo of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast with guest Joel Winstead.

For their 195th episode, two imposter film critics, two murderous dads, and two non-Italian school teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, happily stay in the monumental year of 1999 for one more week with another cornerstone film. Lapped at the time by the likes of The Matrix, American Beauty, Magnolia, and Fight Club, stands the late Anthony Minghella’s salacious The Talented Mr. Ripley starring those aforementioned early white-hot coals of Damon, Law, Paltrow, and Hoffman. Minghella’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning The English Patient, might have aged better than those previously mentioned 1999 bangers, and our guys are here to dote on its top-to-bottom lavishness. Come learn more and stay for the mutual love and respect that fun movies encapsulate. Enjoy our podcast!
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Written by Don Shanahan

DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic writing here on Film Obsessive as the Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor for the film department. He also writes for his own website, Every Movie Has a Lesson. Don is one of the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network and sponsored by Film Obsessive. As a school teacher by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the nationally-recognized Critics Choice Association, Hollywood Creative Alliance, Online Film Critics Society, North American Film Critics Association, International Film Society Critics Association, Internet Film Critics Society, Online Film and TV Association, and the Celebrity Movie Awards.

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