| Capote (2005)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Truman Capote
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| Catherine Keener |
Harper Lee
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| Clifton Collins Jr. |
Perry Smith
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| Chris Cooper |
Alvin Dewey
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| Bruce Greenwood |
Jack Dunphy
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| Bob Balaban |
William Shawn
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| Amy Ryan |
Marie Dewey
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| Mark Pellegrino |
Richard Hickock
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| Allie Mickelson |
Laura Kinney
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| Marshall Bell |
Warden Marshall Krutch
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| Jr. Clifton Collins |
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| Kelci Stephenson |
Nancy Clutter
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| Craig Archibald |
Christopher
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| Plot |
| Bolstered by an Oscar®-caliber performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role, Capote ranked highly among the best films of 2005. Written by actor/screenwriter Dan Futterman and based on selected chapters from the biography by Gerald Clarke, this mercilessly perceptive drama shows how Truman Capote brought about his own self-destruction in the course of writing In Cold Blood, the "nonfiction novel" that was immediately acclaimed as a literary milestone. After learning of brutal killings in rural Holcomb, Kansas, in November 1959, Capote gained the confidence of captured killers Perry Smith (Clifton Collins, Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) in an effort to tell their story, but he ultimately sacrificed his soul in the process of writing his greatest book. Hoffman transcends mere mimicry to create an utterly authentic, psychologically tormented portrait of an insincere artist who was not above lying and manipulation to get what he needed. Bennett Miller's intimate direction focuses on the consequences of Capote's literary ambition, tempered by an equally fine performance by Catherine Keener as Harper Lee, Capote's friend and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who served as Capote's quiet voice of conscience. Spanning the seven-year period between the Kansas murders and the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966, Capote reveals the many faces of a writer who grew too close to his subjects, losing his moral compass as they were fitted with a hangman's noose. --Jeff Shannon |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Biography; Drama |
| Director |
Bennett Miller |
| Producer |
Caroline Baron; Michael Ohoven |
| Writer |
Dan Futterman; Gerald Clarke |
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| Studio |
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Country |
Canada
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
114 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
9/2/2005 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
596 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
3/28/2006 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
Region |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
043396126480 |
| Release Date |
3/21/2006 |
| Subtitles |
Cantonese Chinese; French; Korean; Portuguese; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
 FRENCH: Dolby Digital Stereo |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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