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Minghella directed the film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. The novel tells the story of Tom Ripley, a young American who travels to Italy to pose as Dickie Greenleaf, a wealthy man he met on a train. Ripley's plan is to steal Greenleaf's identity and inherit his fortune, but he soon finds himself caught up in a web of lies and deceit.