In New York City, he was the ultimate insider. But out here, he was on the outside, looking in.
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Aug 20237/10
Actor or mimic or both? Philip Seymour Hoffman certainly delivers a plausible and captivating portrayal of the eponymous acclaimed novelist in the late 1950s. He is researching his latest novel when he alights on news of the brutal murder of a Kansas family. Pretty unscrupulously, this rather unfulfilled writer decides this is a rich vein for him to exploit, and so using just about every (legal) means at his disposal manages to ingratiate himself with friends of the victims and then once the police apprehend two suspects, he does the same with Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jnr.). He intends to use the template of this case and the true nature of the personalities to construct a novel - but one based in fact not fiction. What ensues here is quite a cleverly crafted look at just how the shrewd and intelligent man uses his intellect to manipulate the scenario so as to provide him what what he wants, when he wants it - but it also exposes his slightly controlling character to some fault lines. He begins to form a relationship, of sorts, with his quarry - he has a fondness that compromises his objectivity to his story; the accused serves to begin to humanise this rather aloof and frankly
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Cast
- Philip Seymour HoffmanTruman Capote
- Catherine KeenerHarper Lee
- Clifton Collins Jr.Perry Smith
- Bruce GreenwoodJack Dunphy
- Bob BalabanWilliam Shawn
- Mark PellegrinoDick Hickock
- Marshall BellWarden Marshall Krutch
- Amy RyanMarie Dewey
- Bess MeyerLinda Murchak
- Chris CooperAlvin Dewey
Crew
- Bennett MillerDirector
- Dan FuttermanScreenplay
- Gerald ClarkeNovel
- Adam KimmelDirector of Photography
- Mychael DannaOriginal Music Composer
- Christopher TellefsenEditor
- Caroline BaronProducer
- Michael OhovenProducer
- William VinceProducer
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