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 In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and a favorite figure in what is soon to be known as the Jet Set, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family -- the Clutters -- in Holcomb, Kansas. Similar stories appear in newspapers almost every day, but something about this one catches Capote's eye. It presents an opportunity, he believes, to test his long-held theory that, in the hands of the right writer, non-fiction can be compelling as fiction. What impact have the murders had on that tiny town on the wind-swept plains? With that as his subject -- for his purpose, it does not matter if the murderers are never caught -- he convinces The New Yorker magazine to give him an assignment and he sets out for Kansas. Accompanying him is a friend from his Alabama childhood: Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), who within a few months will win a Pulitzer Prize and achieve fame of her own as the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Though his childlike voice, fey mannerisms and unconventional clothes arouse initial hostility in a part of the country that still thinks of itself as part of the Old West, Capote quickly wins the trust of the locals, most notably Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper), the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent who is leading the hunt for the killers. Caught in Las Vegas, the killers -- Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) -- are returned to Kansas, where they are tried, convicted and sentenced to die. Capote visits them in jail. As he gets to know them, he realizes that what he had thought would be a magazine article has grown into a book, a book that could rank with the greatest in modern literature. His subject is now as profound as any an American writer has ever tackled. It is nothing less than the collision of two Americas: the safe, protected country the Clutters knew and the rootless, amoral country inhabited by their killers. Hidden behind Capote's often frivolous façade is a writer of towering ambition. But even he wonders if he can write the book -- the great book -- he believes destiny has handed him. "Sometimes, when I think how good it could be," he writes a friend, "I can hardly breathe."
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from Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by
Bennett Miller
Starring
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Truman Capote)
Catherine Keener (Nelle Harper Lee)
Clifton Collins Jr. (Perry Smith)
Chris Cooper (Alvin Dewey)
Bruce Greenwood (Jack Dunphy)
Bob Balaban (William Shawn)
Amy Ryan (Marie Dewey)
Mark Pellegrino (Richard Hickock)
Allie Mickelson (Laura Kinney)
Marshall Bell (Warden Marshall Krutch)
Araby Lockhart (Dorothy Sanderson)
Robert Huculak (New York Reporter)
R.D. Reid (Roy Church)
Rob McLaughlin (Harold Nye)
Harry Nelken (Sheriff Walter Sanderson)
Kerr Hewitt (Danny Burke)
John Maclaren (Judge Roland Tate)
Jeremy Dangerfield (Jury Foreman)
Kwesi Ameyaw (Porter #1)
Jim Shepard (Chaplain)
John B. Destry (Pete Holt)
C. Ernst Harth (Lowell Lee Andrews)
Adam Kimmel (Richard Avedon)
Olie Alto (Franklin Weeks)
Craig Archibald (Christopher Isherwood)
Norman Armour (Literary Enthusiast)
Ainsley Balcewich (Girl #2)
Anne Baragar (Laura Kinney's Mother)
Jonathan Barrett (Journalist #2)
Michael J. Burg (Williams)
Bronwen Coleman (Barbara)
Nazariy Demkowicz (Paul Dewey)
James Durham (Young Prison Guard)
Mia Faircloth (Girl #1)
Frank Filbert (ND Prison Guard)
Michal Grajewski (Young Assistant)
Jerome Greencorn (Journalist #4)
Ernesto Griffith (Porter #2)
Michelle Harrison (Babe Paley)
Boyd Johnson (ND Prison Guard)
Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Gloria Guiness)
Ken Krotowich (Courthouse Guard)
Jason Love (Row Guard #2)
Don Malboeuf (Row Guard #3)
Manfred Maretzki (Herbert Clutter)
Bess Meyer (Linda Murchak)
Jason Mitchell (Kenyon Clutter)
Wayne Nicklas (Row Guard #1)
David Rakoff (Ben Baron)
Christopher Read (Journalist #3)
Kate Shindle (Rose)
Miriam Smith (Bonnie Clutter)
Kelci Stephenson (Nancy Clutter)
Marina Stephenson (Operator)
Edward Sutton (Old Man)
Avery Tiplady (Alvin Dewey Jr.)
John Warkentin (Warren Hotel Desk Clerk)
Will Woytowich (Cruiser)
Jon Ted Wynne (Journalist #1)
Written by
Dan Futterman
Gerald Clarke (book)
Rated: 
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Capote (DVD)
Capote [CD]
Original Soundtrack
Capote: A Biography
by Gerald Clarke
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
In Cold Blood (1967 - DVD)
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
by George Plimpton
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
Truman Capote (A&E Biography - DVD)
Conversations with Capote
by Lawrence Grobel
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