7 Nov 2007
Director: Bennett Miller
Canada, USA
2005
114 min
November 1959, Truman Capote, the popular writer of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, sets off with his friend Nelle Harper Lee (To Kill A Mocking Bird) to redefine non-fiction writing. He intends to interview Perry Smith who is facing execution for the murder of a Kansas family. As the interview progresses Truman comes to empathise with Perry’s troubled past. He becomes torn between the need to close his story with Perry’s execution and his growing affection for the man. This troubling experience would produce the classic ‘In Cold Blood’. Philip Seymour Hoffman‘s sublime performance won him an Oscar in 2006.