In 1959, Truman Capote searches information about the murder of a Kansas family and makes decision to have a book to disclose events. Unwittingly, He falls in love with one of the killers, Perry Smith.
Its power comes from the slow, steady build to the execution of Perry Smith, the man half-responsible for the murders of a farming family of four, and what that death does to Capote.
It's a fully realized look at a time and place as well as a riveting study of career obsessions warring with a sense of justice.
Matt's Movie Reviews
July 06, 2010
In a career that has seen actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman play a vast array of characters (and very well at that), Hoffman has found the role of a lifetime which he delivers with uncanny precision.
The almost perfectly realized Capote -- stumbling only in the lack of shading it gives Keener's and Greenwood's characters -- offers a sobering glimpse at what the author had to give up of his soul to achieve his success.
Miller and Futterman underscore the idea that what Capote's achievement does to the story of Hickock and Smith and the Clutter killings is to remove it from the actual world and place it in a literary one.
