Capote (2005)
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 180
Fresh: 162 | Rotten: 18
Philip Seymour Hoffman's riveting central performance guides a well-constructed retelling of the most sensational and significant period in author Truman Capote's life.
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 0
Philip Seymour Hoffman's riveting central performance guides a well-constructed retelling of the most sensational and significant period in author Truman Capote's life.
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The creation of one of the most memorable books of the 1960s -- and the impact the writing and research would have on its author -- is explored in this drama based on a true story. In 1959, Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a critically acclaimed novelist who had earned a small degree of celebrity for his work when he read a short newspaper item about a multiple murder in a small Kansas town. For some reason, the story fascinated Capote, and he asked William Shawn (Bob
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Cast
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Philip Seymour Hoffm...
Truman Capote -
Catherine Keener
Nelle Harper Lee -
Clifton Collins Jr.
Perry Smith -
Chris Cooper
Alvin Dewey -
Bruce Greenwood
Jack Dunphy -
Bob Balaban
William Shawn -
Amy Ryan
Mary Dewey -
Mark Pellegrino
Dick Hickock -
Marshall Bell
Warden Marshall Krut... -
Adam Kimmel
Richard Avedon -
R.D. Reid
Roy Church -
C. Ernst Harth
Lowell Lee Andrews -
Harry Nelken
Sheriff Walter Sande... -
John Maclaren
Judge Roland Tate -
Jim Shepard
Chaplain -
Bob Huculak
New York Reporter -
John B. Destry
Pete Holt -
Kwesi Ameyaw
Porter -
Allie Mickelson
Laura Kinney -
Araby Lockhart
Dorothy Sanderson -
Robert McLaughlin
Harold Nye -
Kerr Hewitt
Danny Burke -
Jeremy Dangerfield
Jury Foreman
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Capote is a cool and polished hall of mirrors reflecting the ways in which Truman Capote came to write (and be written by) In Cold Blood.
Hoffman goes beyond impersonation to something close to possession.
Skillfully and economically put together.
The almost perfectly realized Capote -- stumbling only in the lack of shading it gives Keener's and Greenwood's characters -- offers a sobering glimpse at what the author had to give up of his soul to achieve his success.
A meditation on the artist's obligations to the art and to society and lines that blur when you cross them.
It's a fully realized look at a time and place as well as a riveting study of career obsessions warring with a sense of justice.
Aims for starkness but ends up as tastefulness
The Passion of Truman Capote
Hoffman tries, but mainly just gets the surface of Capote.
I am aware that virtually every critic in America if not on the planet has lauded Hoffman's portrayal of the author and that I am in the minority. Watching Hoffman I felt something primal was missing from his interpretation ... To my mind, Hoffman's work
...the one award I'm sure it will win, Best Actor for Hoffman
a milestone in modern acting, and quite fascinating in any number of ways, particularly its depiction of the minutiae of the writer's life.
all kinds of of ambitions -- noble and otherwise --converge; where self-doubt is less a necessary editor than an objection to be overcome.
A quiet but hypnotic film that earns its nominations.
The performance you'll see in "Capote" is easily the best of the year. actually, the best of any year. It's one of those turns that'll be remembered for years to come, up with Welles in "Citizen Kane", Brando in "The Godfather", Nicholson in "
Estupendo retrato de una personalidad compleja y fascinante que vale por s� mismo, m�s all� de la formidable caracterizaci�n de Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Hoffman's conspicuously dapper turn as Capote shouldn't overshadow the murky, pervasively tense work of director Bennett Miller.
Sometimes movie biographies (even when dealing with fascinating people) are dry and familiar. Capote, on the other hand, is full of life.
Seymour da la actuaci�n de su carrera, reviviendo el intelectualismo, la homosexualidad y el estilo corrosivo de uno de los m�s grandes narradores de Estados Unidos.
Hoffman is terrific in the lead role, brilliantly capturing Capote's unusual, high pitched voice and camp mannerisms, while also hinting at the calculating darkness of the man within.
Philip Seymour Hoffman encarna as v�rias facetas do personagem com delicadeza exemplar.
Grounded in a superb screenplay, the film is entirely in the hand of Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote, a remarkable performance that dares to dangle over the precipice of overstatement to capture a character who defies fiction.
And the Oscar goes to.....
...a multi-layered performance by Hoffman...guide[s] the movie rather than a clear-cut narrative...
A powerful, unsympathetic, no-frills portrayal of how steady moral decay corroded Capote's powers of expression.
Hoffman is technically flawless in recreating the look, the voice and the mannerisms, but it's more than that. What he's doing approaches the supernatural.
Audience Reviews for Capote
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Yes Philip Seymour Hoffman did a great job and portrayed Capote extremely well, and apart from the supporting cast and the good acting everything else is poor in my opinion!
I don't think i like Truman Capote at all he needed a smack in my opinion and there was no way you can feel sympathy for the murderers even if they were being used by the writer as they did a horrible crime for so little money!
I did like the line where PSH is on the phone to Harper Lee and he says 'There was nothing more he could have done' and Harper Lee replies 'That may have been the case but in all honesty you didn't really want to' i thought that was really interesting it certainly shows you the true character of Capote and it makes you wonder and question whether hes any better than the guys he condemmed to death !
Philip did great as did the rest of the cast, movie was boring, slow and annoying.
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