Synopsis
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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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
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The Hollywood Reporter
Capote represents something unique in cinema.…Most eye-catching for critics and audiences in the weeks to come will be Philip Seymour Hoffman's brilliant metamorphosis into the persona of the late author. - 100
Variety
The mesmerizing performance of Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the celebrated writer dominates every scene, while director Bennett Miller and screenwriter Dan Futterman's penetrating study enthralls in every aspect. - 100
Christian Science Monitor
On the personal betrayals that accompany Capote's ache for literary transcendence. The betrayals were necessary to create "In Cold Blood." This is why Capote is such an unsettlingly ambiguous experience. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
Capote honors its subject by doing just what Truman Capote did. It teases, fascinates, and haunts. - 90
Time
Hoffman and the film are terrific. Supported by the eminent Catherine Keener (as author Harper Lee) and Chris Cooper (as detective Alvin Dewey), Hoffman begins with a dead-on impersonation of Capote that soon becomes a kind of channeling as the audience comes to see this American tragedy through his eyes. - 90
The New York Times
A fascinating and fine-grained reconstruction of that period in its subject's life, a time when he (Capote) pursued literary glory and flirted with moral ruin. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Miller and Futterman avoid the pitfalls of the genre by refusing to mythologize the artist, plunging instead into the soul of the man. - 88
Rolling Stone
Capote is a movie that doesn't pull its punches. It's a knockout.