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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Release Date: Oct 13, 2006
Running Time: 118 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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What starts out as the irreverent journey of the openly gay writer Truman Capote to the middle-class world of 1950's Kansas, where he goes--with his childhood friend Harper Lee--to research the murder of the Clutter family, turns to something altogether darker when Capote forms an intense and complex relationship with one of the murderers. In doing so, he produced his greatest work, "In Cold Blood," but at a devastating personal cost.
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Truman Capote
Nelle Harper Lee
Perry Smith
Bennett Cerf
Alvin Dewey
Slim Keith
Kitty Dean
Marella Agnelli
Diana Vreeland
Babe Paley
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PETER TRAVERS -
October 5, 2006
Through no fault of its own -- they were filmed at the same time -- Infamous follows Capote to the multiplex a year later with British actor Toby Jones trying to fill the Oscar-winning footprints of Philip Seymour Hoffman as literary gadfly Truman Capote. Jones looks more like the small, impish Capote than Hoffman does -- he has the nasal whine down pat -- but his performance fails to cut as deep into the complexities of the man. Neither does the movie. Director Douglas McGrath, who adapted the…
Yes, it's true. Although it reaped deserved accolades and an Oscar win for its star, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote keeps you somewhat at arm's length, as you watch Truman Capote go through his agonizing journey to writing his one and only masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Infamous, however, wears its heart on its sleeve, drawing you in immediately. When we first meet Capote (Toby Jones), it's in New York. As the toast of the town and confidante to some of Manhattan's elite grand dames, including Babe… |
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