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Capote
2005
In November 1959, the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman CApote, famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's. With his childhood friend Harper Lee, writer of soon-to-be published To Kill a Mockingbird, Capote sets out to investigate, winning over the locals despite his flamboyant .. Read more
| Starring | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper |
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| Director | Bennett Miller |
| Genres | Drama |
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Capote
In November 1959, the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman CApote, famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's. With his childhood friend Harper Lee, writer of soon-to-be published To Kill a Mockingbird, Capote sets out to investigate, winning over the locals despite his flamboyant appearance and style. When he forms a bond with the killers and their execution date nears, the writing of In Cold Blood, a book that will chnage the course of American literature, takes a drastic toll on capote, changing him in a way he never imagined.
| Starring | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper, Bob Balaban, Bruce Greenwood, Amy Ryan, Mark Pellegrino, Dan Futterman, Allie Mickelson, Marshall Bell, Araby Lockhart, Robert Huculak |
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| Director | Bennett Miller |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 54 mins |
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| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | English, Dutch, Hindi |
| Released | DVD: 03 Jul 2006 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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Philip Seymour Hoffman doesn’t look much like the novelist Truman Capote. He’s several inches taller and altogether a bigger, bulkier figure. He barely approximates his... read more »
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69 out of 92 people found this review helpful
The Whispering
Philip Seymour Hoffman must do an incredible job of impersonating Truman Capote in this movie (I don't know this for sure because I, unlike the self congratulatory critics it seems, never knew Mr Capote). I have no idea why else this film would have met with the critical acclaim it did. I refuse to believe that I just didnt get it or that it was too smart for me--this film was anything but.
Hoffman whispers his way through the movie making the dialogue very difficult to hear, let alone care about.
The film plods and this is compounded on by underdeveloped characters for whom the viewer can build no kind of empathy. -
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15 out of 18 people found this review helpful
A mind diseased..
I loved this film.
The pace was slow, the mood sombre, and apart from Nell Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) there were few characters with whom to indentify.
But I was comletely involved. It was a fascinating exploration of what happens when we become obsessed with someone who reflects our own dark side.
At one moment, when Nell asks Capote if he fell in love with Perry, the murderer, Capote replies "it's as if we grew up in the same house, and he left by the back door, and I by the front".
There is no way to connect with the character of Capote - he was a liar, a narcissist, a bad friend and an altogether unpleasant person, but following the story of his creation of one of the most ground breaking pieces of American literature of the 20th century - completely gripping.
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Capote
In November 1959, the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman CApote, famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's. With his childhood friend Harper Lee, writer of soon-to-be published To Kill a Mockingbird, Capote sets out to investigate, winning over the locals ...
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