Synopsis
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
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Cast
- Toby JonesTruman Capote
- Sandra BullockNelle Harper Lee
- Daniel CraigPerry Smith
- Peter BogdanovichBennett Cerf
- Jeff DanielsAlvin Dewey
- Hope DavisSlim Keith
- Gwyneth PaltrowKitty Dean
- Isabella RosselliniMarella Agnelli
- Juliet StevensonDiana Vreeland
- Sigourney WeaverBabe Paley
Recommendations
- 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Infamous gives you the unique opportunity to see how two sets of filmmakers can take exactly the same story, make extremely tough though different choices in emphasis and tone and achieve brilliant movies. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Infamous is the better Capote film, yes, but also the less easily digestible one, the more eccentric one and -- yes -- the gayer one. - 75
ReelViews
"Capote" is the more intellectual of the two films; Infamous is the more emotional. They exist to complement, not eclipse, one another. - 75
The A.V. Club
Ultimately, the problem with Infamous isn't that it revisits Capote's turf--it's that it does the same things well, and leaves the same unsatisfying holes. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Neither movie (Capote/Infamous) gives you the whole picture, but it's fun to see them both and rearrange the pieces in your head. - 70
Variety
Writer-director Douglas McGrath's boldest stroke is to impose a more overtly gay interpretation on a central relationship in which the attraction was generally supposed to be unspoken. - 70
Village Voice
It's just a lesser version, light in weight and absent the ache that permeated the movie for which Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Academy Award. It can't withstand the comparisons. It's good, especially during its first half, just not good enough. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
The added value that writer-director Douglas McGrath has in mind is gossip -- and a goggly interest in gossip becomes the glittering gimmick of Infamous.
