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SOURCE: Paramount Pictures

Leonardo DiCaprio, Among Others, to Attend Paramount Pictures' Premiere Screening of 'THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY'

WHAT: Premiere Screening of "THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY"

WHO: ``THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY'' cast members attending include: Matt

Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour

Hoffman, Jack Davenport, Philip Baker Hall, Stefania Rocca

          Filmmakers attending include: Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack,
          William Horberg, Tom Sternberg

          Other guests include: Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Christine
          Baranski, Julie Cypher, Dana Delany, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison
          Ford, Melissa Etheridge, Jonathan Frakes, Genie Francis,
          Peri Gilpin, Rachel Hunter, Laura Innes, Rob Lowe, Tobey Maguire,
          Juliana Margulies, Martha Plimpton, Freddie Prinze Jr, Ving Rhames,
          Julian Sands, Alicia Silverstone, Patrick Stewart, Julia Stiles ...
          and more to come.

    WHEN: Sunday, December 12, 1999 @ 6:30 p.m. Prompt
          Arrivals begin at 5:30 p.m.

    WHERE: MANN VILLAGE THEATRE
           961 Broxton Avenue, Westwood

ABOUT ``THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY''

To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s; that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves - and Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) leads. When Dickie's father, a wealthy shipbuilder, asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful expatriate girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make their lifestyle his own. After all, it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films present ``The Talented Mr. Ripley'' from Academy Award®-winning director Anthony Minghella, starring Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf and Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue. Minghella directs from a screenplay he wrote based on Patricia Highsmith's acclaimed suspense novel. William Horberg and Tom Sternberg are the producers of the Mirage Enterprises and Timnick Films production. Sydney Pollack is executive producer. Alessandro Von Normann is line producer and Paul Zaentz is co-producer. Paramount Pictures is part of the entertainment operations of Viacom Inc.

     Release Date:            December 25, 1999
     Directed by:             Anthony Minghella
     Produced by:             William  Horberg & Tom Sternberg
     Executive Producer:      Sydney Pollack
     Written by:              Anthony Minghella
     MPAA Rating:             R

SOURCE: Paramount Pictures