Capote Movie Review
Feb 4, 2006 ,
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CrimsonLight
On Nov. 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family in rural Holcomb, Kan., are brutally murdered. Thousands of miles away in New York City, acclaimed and eccentric writer Truman Capote (author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s) reads a short summary of the crime in The New York Times and is spellbound by its macabre details. Immediately, he decides the story will be the subject of his next article for The New Yorker and heads for Kansas (accompanied by his close friend and fellow novelist, Nelle Harper Lee).
With Harper Lee’s help, Capote ingratiates himself into the community and begins to gather the stories of those who knew the family. The writer’s research is barely underway when Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Alvin Dewey gets word that the two killers—Perry Smith and Richard Hickock—have been caught. Capote quickly initiates what becomes a close, yet twisted, “friendship” with Perry Smith.
“Hoffman may catch all the plaudits, but director Bennett Miller makes few false steps in this somber yet meticulously directed film.”
– Boo Allen, DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE (TX)
“Quietly dazzles not just as a character study of the immensely complex author but also as a fascinating look at the relationship between a writer and his subject.”
– Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
RATED R
DISTRIBUTED BY
Sony Pictures Classics
DIRECTED BY
Bennett Miller
STARRING
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote; Catherine Keener as Nelle Harper Lee; Clifton Collins Jr. as Perry Smith; Mark Pellegrino as Richard Hickock; Bruce Greenwood as Jack Dunphy; Chris Cooper as Alvin Dewey
[tags]movie review, Capote, Hoffman, Sony Pictures, Bennett Miller[/tags]
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