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Capote (2005)
Director: Bennett Miller
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From Time Out New York
The smart new film from director Bennett Miller is not, wisely, a straight birth-to-death biopic. What the film does do, with rare intellectual rigor, is arrive at solutions to the problem of adapting Capote himself. It's the author's sensibility—catty, gifted and maddeningly fickle as he attempts to write In Cold Blood—that's been fleshed out by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the year's strangest, most accomplished performance. He's not only made Capote's high-pitched twitter and mannerisms his own, but burrowed deeply into unnerving shades of the writer's narcissism and out-and-out selfishness.Author: JR
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Cast & crew
Director: Bennett Miller
Producer: Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr, Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Bob Balaban, Amy Ryan, Mark Pellegrino full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 115 mins
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