Capote

Portrayal of one of America's most famous authors, Truman Capote.

Director Bennett Miller (The Cruise) has produced an insightful and riveting expose of one of America's best known authors. Capote traces how Truman Capote moved from writing popular fiction to publishing a non-fiction novel that would take America by storm.

In 1959, Capote who had received great acclaim for his fictional novel , Breakfast in Tiffany's was working for The New Yorker magazine. On hearing about a brutal and apparently motiveless murder of a family of four in Kansas, Capote received permission to cover the story. He travels to Halcomb, Kansas where the murder took place to research the article with his best friend and novelist Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) in tow.

After finding more information about the brutal slaughter of this family, Capote decides to write a non-fiction novel about the murders. He arranges extensive interviews with the murderers and becomes the unlikely confidante of murderer Perry Smith (Clifton Collins). Capote continues to visit Perry and interview him and identifies with Perry's troubled childhood. 

Philip Seymour Hoffman is truly impressive as Truman Capote. He masterfully displays Truman's contradictory personality, the wealth of compassion he had for others while at the same time being grossly self-obsessed. This is a riveting and sad story about a talented and deeply troubled author.

Capote opens on Friday, 24th February.