Description
Included on the special edition of this VHS release is "Reflections on The Talented Mr. Ripley," a 15-minute compilation of promotional interviews (also included on the DVD edition) with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and director Anthony Minghella. The actors express insights about their roles and the central theme of the film (essentially, the hazards of idolatry and adopting another identity), and Minghella relates his admiration for the fiction of Patricia Highsmith and his desire--after intitially being hired only to write the Ripley screenplay--to embrace the project as his own and lobby to direct it as well. The above-average intelligence of the interviewees makes this featurette a valuable supplement to the film itself.