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.
27 May 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
9 July 1951, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
March 21, 1978 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
30 October 1972, San Diego, California, USA
14 October 1960, New York, USA
23 July 1967, Fairport, New York, USA
1963, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
9 April 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 August 1956, Noranda, Québec, Canada
3 May 1968, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
20 April 1951, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
17 October 1972, Toronto, Canada
24 March 1975, Puyallup, Washington, USA
27 November 1964, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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.October 29, 2005
Skillfully and economically put together.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.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.October 28, 2005
A meditation on the artist's obligations to the art and to society and lines that blur when you cross them.September 01, 2009
Aims for starkness but ends up as tastefulnessMay 17, 2008
The Passion of Truman CapoteJuly 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.January 31, 2008
Hoffman tries, but mainly just gets the surface of Capote.October 29, 2005
Hoffman goes beyond impersonation to something close to possession.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.