Capote Movie

Director:
Bennett Miller

Writers (WGA):
Dan Futterman (screenplay)
Gerald Clarke (book)

Release Date:
3 February 2006 (USA)

Genre:
Biography | Crime | Drama

Cast :
* Philip Seymour Hoffman — Truman Capote
* Catherine Keener — Nelle Harper Lee
* Clifton Collins Jr. — Perry Smith
* Chris Cooper — Alvin Dewey
* Bob Balaban — William Shawn
* Bruce Greenwood — Jack Dunphy
* Amy Ryan — Marie Dewey
* Mark Pellegrino — Richard Hickock
* Allie Mickelson — Laura Kinney
* Marshall Bell — Warden Marshall Krutch
* Araby Lockhart — Dorothy Sanderson
* Robert Huculak — New York Reporter
* R.D. Reid — Roy Church
* Rob McLaughlin — Harold Nye
* Harry Nelken — Sheriff Walter Sanderson
* C. Ernst Harth — Lowell Lee Andrews

Original Sound Track :
1. Out There
2. The Village of Holcombe - Truman Capote
3. The Two Young Men Had Little In Common - Truman Capote
4. Spoon Feeding
5. This Is It, This Is It, This Has To Be It - Truman Capote
6. Holcomb Is Twelve Miles East of The Mountain Time Zone Border - Truman Capote
7. N.Y. Reading
8. Eight Non-Stop Passenger Trains - Truman Capote
9. If One Bird
10. It Was Midday Deep in the Mojave Desert - Truman Capote
11. It Was Late Afternoon - Truman Capote
12. Perry Noticed Them First - Truman Capote
13. At Five That Afternoon, THe Long Ride Came to an End - Truman Capote
14. Not Much Time Left
15. Dewey Had Watched Them Die - Truman Capote
16. I Thought He Was a Very Nice Gentleman
17. Epigraph
18. Answered Prayers

Plot :
In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and a favorite figure in what is soon to be known as the Jet Set, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family—the Clutters—in Holcomb, Kansas. Similar stories appear in newspapers almost every day, but something about this one catches Capote's eye. It presents an opportunity, he believes, to test his long-held theory that, in the hands of the right writer, non-fiction can be compelling as fiction. What impact have the murders had on that tiny town on the wind-swept plains? With that as his subject—for his purpose, it does not matter if the murderers are never caught—he convinces The New Yorker magazine to give him an assignment and he sets out for Kansas. Accompanying him is a friend from his Alabama childhood: Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), who within a few months will win a Pulitzer Prize and achieve fame of her own as the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Though his childlike voice, fey mannerisms and unconventional clothes arouse initial hostility in a part of the country that still thinks of itself as part of the Old West, Capote quickly wins the trust of the locals, most notably Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper), the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent who is leading the hunt for the killers. Caught in Las Vegas, the killers—Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino)—are returned to Kansas, where they are tried, convicted and sentenced to die. Capote visits them in jail. As he gets to know them, he realizes that what he had thought would be a magazine article has grown into a book, a book that could rank with the greatest in modern literature. His subject is now as profound as any an American writer has ever tackled. It is nothing less than the collision of two Americas: the safe, protected country the Clutters knew and the rootless, amoral country inhabited by their killers. Hidden behind Capote's often frivolous façade is a writer of towering ambition. But even he wonders if he can write the book—the great book—he believes destiny has handed him. "Sometimes, when I think how good it could be," he writes a friend, "I can hardly breathe." -- © Sony Pictures Classics

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