Vic’s neighbors like him, but pity him since his wife Melinda doesn’t do much to hide her various affairs. The story opens in Little Westley, an affluent suburb where Vic Van Allen runs a boutique publishing house. Ripley, and is probably one of Highsmith’s best novels. It came out in the same decade as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. I was curious if any of the questions brought up in the Ripley movies would apply to this film.ĭeep Water is based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1957 novel of the same name. By coincidence, Deep Water (directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas) came out right as I was wrapping out my blog series, so I decided to postpone my final post and look at that film. Ripley that it seemed like a good idea to look at the various films based on Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley books, since a movie based on one of her other thrillers was coming out soon. I mentioned at the start of my blog series The Cinematic Mr.
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