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Capote

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 54m
  • 88

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Release Date:

Sep 30, 2005

Runtime:

1hr 54m

Synopsis

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

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88
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Based on 40 Critics
7.7

USER SCORE (267)

Generally favorable reviews based on 267 Reviews
88

Capote is a movie that doesn't pull its punches. It's a knockout.

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Metacritic review by Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
100

Capote represents something unique in cinema.…Most eye-catching for critics and audiences in the weeks to come will be Philip Seymour Hoffman's brilliant metamorphosis into the persona of the late author.

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Metacritic review by Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter
90

Hoffman and the film are terrific. Supported by the eminent Catherine Keener (as author Harper Lee) and Chris Cooper (as detective Alvin Dewey), Hoffman begins with a dead-on impersonation of Capote that soon becomes a kind of channeling as the audience comes to see this American tragedy through his eyes.

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Richard Corliss
Time
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