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Capote
Image:Capote poster.jpg
Promotional poster for Capote
Directed by Bennett Miller
Produced by Caroline Baron
William Vince
Michael Ohoven
Written by Screenplay:
Dan Futterman
Biography:
Gerald Clarke
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman
Catherine Keener
Clifton Collins Jr.
Chris Cooper
Bruce Greenwood
Music by Mychael Danna
Cinematography Adam Kimmel
Editing by Christopher Tellefsen
Distributed by United Artists
Sony Pictures Classics
Release date(s) Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 30, 2005
Image:Flag of Australia.svg February 23, 2006
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 24, 2006
Image:Flag of Japan.svg September 30, 2006
Running time 114 min.
Country Canada / USA <ref name="IMDB">Capote (2005). IMDB.com. Retrieved on 15 November, 2006.</ref>
Language English
Budget $ 7 million <ref name="boxofficemojo">Capote (2005). boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved on 16 November, 2006.</ref>
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Capote is an Academy Award-winning 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal) on a writing assignment for The New Yorker. The film follows the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood. The movie itself was based on the biography called Capote by Gerald Clarke. The movie was filmed mostly in Manitoba<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379725/locations</ref>, in the autumn of 2004, and was released on 30 September2005, to coincide with Truman Capote's birthday.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie opens in Kansas with the discovery of the dead bodies of four of the members of the Clutter family by a family friend. While reading the Times, Truman Capote is riveted by the story of the Clutters and calls William Shawn, then the editor of The New Yorker, to announce that he will personally document the tragedy.

He travels to Kansas with his childhood friend Harper Lee and sets about interviewing those involved with the victims, the Clutter family, with Lee as his go-between and interpreter of rural life. When the murderers are apprehended, Capote ingratiates himself with the wife of the town's sheriff and gains access to one of the suspects, Perry Smith, and Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Alvin Dewey. Capote spends the next five years writing his masterpiece, awaiting the outcome of the trials and appeals and the eventual punishment of Smith and his partner in crime, Dick Hickock. Capote has mixed feelings about the last appeal: It means that the case which absorbs his life drags on longer, and he cannot finish his book.

The last appeal is rejected and Smith and his partner are hanged. Perry's hanging is explicitly shown.

The movie showcases Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of the openly gay southern author with his weaknesses for fame, alcohol, and attention. Capote became an international figure upon the release of the book In Cold Blood, which he would publish after Smith and Hickock were executed. Hoffman portrays Capote's conflict between personal literary ambitions and trying to maintain his role as a confidant to Perry, one of the two condemned killers.

Scenes concerning The New Yorker and its editor William Shawn have been fictionalized; Shawn did not arrange for Capote to give a reading, travel with Capote to Kansas, or send a photographer there (The New Yorker didn't even publish photographs until after Shawn's departure in 1987).

In the film Capote is shown wearing his watch on his left wrist when, in fact, it was always his habit to wear it on his right wrist.

Spoilers end here.

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[edit] Filming dates

25 October 2004 - 1 December 2004 ( 36 Days )

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[edit] Awards

[edit] Acting Awards for Philip Seymour Hoffman

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