{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5c0ae28cf08ae0560df90764/625ddf568b075a001362fae6?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Matt Damon & The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Italian Vacation","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5c0ae28cf08ae0560df90764/1650319161375-7fad570d95bf31ca65e304cb630a39e0.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Not all of us can travel abroad during our college years. Some of us can’t afford college or travel and are subsequently forced to fantasize about that magnificent day when a random, white-collar gentleman will offer us $1000 to travel to Italy to locate and return his wayward, womanizing son.  </p><p><br></p><p>Matt Damon lucks out in the extreme in this story; he is literally paid to visit a fictional town in Italy to locate Jude Law and bring him home to America to fulfill his destiny as a shipping heir. Sadly, things get murder-y quickly when same sex tendencies and bitter jealousy arise amidst the gin and the jazz.</p><p><br></p><p>Murder begets more murder in The Talented Mr. Ripley, a film that raises deeply philosophical questions that keep us up at night: Do the ends justify the means? Can anyone truly be a “bad” person? Is Matt Damon prettier than Gwyneth Paltrow? </p><p><br></p><p>Decide for yourself as you experience the criminal misadventures of the talented, treacherous, and tormented Tom Ripley.</p>","author_name":"JRJM Entertainment"}