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Capote
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Mark Pellegrino, Bruce Greenwood
Directed by: Bennett Miller
Screenplay by: Dan Futterman
Release Date: September 30, 2005
MPAA Rating: R for some violent images and brief strong language.
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Domestic: $28,750,530 (58.4%)
Foreign: $20,482,631 (41.6%)
Total: $49,233,161 (Worldwide)
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![]() In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffanys 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 Capotes 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 as 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.
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