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Capote

  • 20052005
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  • 1h 54m
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005)
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In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one... Read allIn 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
IMDb RATING
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135K
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    • Bennett Miller
    • Dan Futterman(screenplay)
    • Gerald Clarke(book)
  • Stars
    • Philip Seymour Hoffman
    • Clifton Collins Jr.
    • Catherine Keener
    • Bennett Miller
    • Dan Futterman(screenplay)
    • Gerald Clarke(book)
  • Stars
    • Philip Seymour Hoffman
    • Clifton Collins Jr.
    • Catherine Keener
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    • 458User reviews
    • 278Critic reviews
    • 88Metascore
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    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Philip Seymour Hoffman
    • Truman Capote
    Clifton Collins Jr.
    Clifton Collins Jr.
    • Perry Smith
    Catherine Keener
    Catherine Keener
    • Nelle Harper Lee
    Allie Mickelson
    Allie Mickelson
    • Laura Kinney
    Kelci Stephenson
    Kelci Stephenson
    • Nancy Clutter
    Craig Archibald
    Craig Archibald
    • Christopher
    Bronwen Coleman
    Bronwen Coleman
    • Barbara
    Kate Shindle
    Kate Shindle
    • Rose
    David Wilson Barnes
    David Wilson Barnes
    • Grayson
    Michael J. Burg
    Michael J. Burg
    • Williams
    • (as Michael J. Berg)
    Kwesi Ameyaw
    Kwesi Ameyaw
    • Porter
    Andrew Farago
    • Car Rental Agent
    Ken Krotowich
    • Courthouse Guard
    Chris Cooper
    Chris Cooper
    • Alvin Dewey
    R.D. Reid
    • Roy Church
    Rob McLaughlin
    • Harold Nye
    • (as Robert McLaughlin)
    Harry Nelken
    • Sheriff Walter Sanderson
    Jon Ted Wynne
    Jon Ted Wynne
    • Journalist
      • Bennett Miller
      • Dan Futterman(screenplay)
      • Gerald Clarke(book)
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    • Trivia
      When In Cold Blood was published, Capote didn't give Lee any credit. He merely dedicated the book to her and to his longtime partner, Jack Dunphy. Lee was hurt by this slight, given the time, effort, and work she put into the book.
    • Goofs
      Although depicted in several scenes typing furiously on a typewriter, Truman Capote was famous for writing everything in longhand. He never typed any of his novels or short stories.
    • Quotes

      Truman Capote: It's as if Perry and I grew up in the same house. And one day he stood up and went out the back door, while I went out the front.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Into the Blue/Serenity/The Greatest Game Ever Played/Mirrormask/Capote/The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
    • Soundtracks
      Hot Cha Cha
      Written by Bebo Valdés (as Ramon E. Valdes)

      Performed by Bebo Valdés (as Bebo Valdes)

      Courtesy of Absolute Spain

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    8/10
    In cold blood
    Director Bennet Miller's "Capote" is a film that shows great intelligence in the way it captured the essence of Truman Capote, a man who achieved fame and notoriety with most of the fiction he wrote. This film concentrates in the period of his life in which he got obsessed by a notorious murder case of the fifties about the murder of a family in Kansas.

    Dan Futterman has written the screen play based on the book by Gerald Clarke. The film is an account about the writing of the novel "In Cold Blood" that showed how the two young men who committed the heinous crime are caught, processed and hanged for their actions.

    If you haven't watched the film, perhaps you would like to stop here.

    When the film opens we get a vision of a lonely house in the distance. This being the Midwest, we are given a flat expanse devoid of elevations anywhere. The camera takes us to that lonely house as a young woman comes calling for her friend that lives in there. Not getting any response, she goes in to a room upstairs where she discovers her friend has been killed. The colors are dark, as is the tone of the film.

    Truman Capote, who had been connected to the New Yorker magazine, sees the article in the N.Y. Times and gets interested. This case that shocked the country, at the time, shows a promise for the writer. The next time we meet him, he is in the small town in Kansas accompanied by his good friend and steadying influence, Nell Harper Lee, a writer.

    By becoming friendly with the sheriff's wife, Mr. Capote gets a privilege by having access to the two murderers. Truman is clearly deeply affected by his relationship with Perry Smith, a handsome dark man who shows a lot of intensity. By gaining their trust, Capote is able to put together his best selling book "In Cold Blood", which will revolutionize American letters in the way the two criminals are portrayed.

    Truman Capote, while pursuing the completion of his book, doesn't come clean to Perry Smith. In fact, when questioned about things he has learned, Capote gives evasive answers because he is not prepared to share with his main subject things that clearly should have been clarified from the start.

    Watching the brilliant take of Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote on the screen, brought to mind another great actor, Meryl Streep, who like Mr. Hoffman is a chameleon in the interpretation of a character. Mr. Hoffman is perfect as the writer because he has captured every mannerism and the speech inflection of Truman Capote. Catherine Keener is perfect as Nelle, the true friend and companion. Bruce Greenwood plays Truman Capote's companion Jack Dunphy. Chris Cooper is totally wasted as Sheriff Dewey.

    Adam Kimmel excellent cinematography contributes to the atmosphere the director gave the film because of the use of muted colors in what appear to be the bleak winter of the Midwest.
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    • Release date
      • February 3, 2006 (United States)
      • United States
      • Canada
      • Sony Classics (United States)
      • English
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      • Stony Mountain Penitentiary, Rockwood, Manitoba, Canada
    • Production companies
      • United Artists
      • Sony Pictures Classics
      • A-Line Pictures
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    • 1 hour 54 minutes
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