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The official screenplay book tie-in to the "one of the best films of the year" (Rolling Stone, Newsweek), starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as legendary writer Truman Capote on his six-year journey to research and write his masterpiece In Cold Blood. Synopsis In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family—the Clutters—in Though his childlike voice, fey mannerisms and unconventional clothes arouse initial hostility in a part of the country that still thinks of itself as part of the Old West, Capote quickly wins the trust of the locals, most notably Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper), the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent who is leading the hunt for the killers, who are ultimately caught, tried, convicted and sentenced to die. As Capote visits the killers in jail and gets to know them, he realizes that what he had thought would be a magazine article has grown into a book, a book that could rank with the greatest in modern literature. Hidden behind Capote's often frivolous facade is a writer of towering ambition. But even he wonders if he can write the book—the great book—he believes destiny has handed him. Reviews "Capote weaves a hypnotically powerful story. The meticulously researched script by Dan Futterman, based on the book by Gerald Clarke, and the perfectly conceived direction by Bennett Miller contribute to Capote's far-reaching power."
"A clear, steady gaze graces the smart biopic Capote... It's an etched-in-acid portrait of a writer whose talent was as ruthless as it was brilliant."
"Rapt, absorbing, and thrillingly perceptive... Capote honors its subject by doing just what Truman Capote did. It teases, fascinates, and haunts."
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