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Capote

Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood

Directed by: Bennett Miller

RS: 4of 4 Stars

2006

With understated power, director Bennett Miller's film follows Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as he befriends two drifters who murdered a family in Kansas in 1959. As his friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) rockets to literary fame, Capote hunkers down over In Cold Blood ("the book I was always meant to write"), the literary-journalistic masterpiece that defined the American loss of innocence as the Fifties became the Sixties.

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