The Talented Mr. Ripley - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[tom]

Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow would later appear together in Contagion (2011).

[norma]

Dickie's suicide note is dated 6 January 1959, director Anthony Minghella's fifth birthday.

[maureen]

The opera shown on the film is the end of Act II from Tchaikovsky's "Yevgeny Onyegin." In this particular scene, Lenski challenged his friend Onyegin for a duel over Olga, who had been engaged to Lenski at that time. Lenski was mortally wounded, and Onyegin departed Russia for a self-imposed exile.