Of the many reasons to see director Bennett Miller's coolly literate account of the six years Truman Capote spent researching and writing his 1966 "nonfiction novel"
In Cold Blood, Philip Seymour Hoffman's astonishingly accurate characterization is only one. Catherine Keener's beautifully shaded performance as Capote's old friend Harper Lee is another and above all, actor-turned-writer Dan Futterman's smart, subtle screenplay, which explores both Capote's determination to turn murder into literature and the deeply troubling questions he raised in the process. Brooklyn, 1959: Transfixed by a
New York Times article detailing the unsolved murders of a prom...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
115 mins