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Capote
In 1959, Truman Capote searches information about the murder of a Kansas family and makes decision to have a book to disclose events. Unwittingly, He falls in love with one of the killers, Perry Smith.
24 March 1975, Puyallup, Washington, USA
14 October 1960, New York, USA
31 January 1977, Toledo, Ohio, USA
20 April 1951, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
19 February 1981, Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
January 31, 2008
Hoffman tries, but mainly just gets the surface of Capote.
October 28, 2005
It's a fully realized look at a time and place as well as a riveting study of career obsessions warring with a sense of justice.
October 28, 2005
The almost perfectly realized Capote -- stumbling only in the lack of shading it gives Keener's and Greenwood's characters -- offers a sobering glimpse at what the author had to give up of his soul to achieve his success.
May 17, 2008
The Passion of Truman Capote
July 06, 2010
In a career that has seen actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman play a vast array of characters (and very well at that), Hoffman has found the role of a lifetime which he delivers with uncanny precision.
February 29, 2016
Miller and Futterman underscore the idea that what Capote's achievement does to the story of Hickock and Smith and the Clutter killings is to remove it from the actual world and place it in a literary one.
October 29, 2005
Hoffman goes beyond impersonation to something close to possession.
September 01, 2009
Aims for starkness but ends up as tastefulness
October 29, 2005
Skillfully and economically put together.
October 28, 2005
A meditation on the artist's obligations to the art and to society and lines that blur when you cross them.
January 05, 2006
Capote is a cool and polished hall of mirrors reflecting the ways in which Truman Capote came to write (and be written by) In Cold Blood.
July 11, 2016
Its power comes from the slow, steady build to the execution of Perry Smith, the man half-responsible for the murders of a farming family of four, and what that death does to Capote.