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30/09/2005 Crime, Drama 1h 54m
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In New York City, he was the ultimate insider. But out here, he was on the outside, looking in.

Overview

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".

  1. Bennett Miller

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Truman Capote

  2. Catherine Keener

    Harper Lee

  3. Clifton Collins Jr.

    Perry Smith

  4. Bruce Greenwood

    Jack Dunphy

  5. Bob Balaban

    William Shawn

  6. Mark Pellegrino

    Dick Hickock

  7. Marshall Bell

    Warden Marshall Krutch

  8. Amy Ryan

    Marie Dewey

  9. Bess Meyer

    Linda Murchak

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-08-07
Actor or mimic or both? Philip Seymour Hoffman certainly delivers a plausible and captivating portrayal of the eponymous acclaimed novelist in the late 1950s. He is researching his latest novel when he alights on news of the brutal murder of a Kansas family. Pretty unscrupulously, this rather unfulfilled writer decides this is a rich vein for him to exploit, and so using just about every (legal) means at his disposal manages to ingratiate himself with friends of the victims and then once the police apprehend two suspects, he does the same with Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jnr.). He intends to ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$7,000,000.00

Revenue
$49,327,405.00

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