Great movie. Tough to get a bead on, because the absence of redeeming characters. Still, plot moves well, Hoffman gives a great performance, and Collins steals the show as Perry, the pitiful killer who almost gets you to buy into his victimization....
- 09.October.2009
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- by: Jim Rogers
- Jim Rogers rated this movie
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Great movie. Tough to get a bead on, because the absence of redeeming characters. Still, plot moves well, Hoffman gives a great performance, and Collins steals the show as Perry, the pitiful killer who almost gets you to buy into his victimization. The way Capote and Perry circle each other is something else. Well done.
- 09.October.2009
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- by: Jim Rogers
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Philip Seymoure Hoffman in a role that was built for him: writer/personality Truman Capote. Honestly, I sometimes think this might be the single most impressive acting performance ever. Capote was a very specific kind of man. He had a very specific...
- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
- sethdellinger rated this movie0/10
Philip Seymoure Hoffman in a role that was built for him: writer/personality Truman Capote. Honestly, I sometimes think this might be the single most impressive acting performance ever. Capote was a very specific kind of man. He had a very specific voice, a very specific mannerismÂ…he was as much a character as Rocky or Bullwinkle. So, it would have been easy for an able actor to simply mimic Capote and do something akin to an impersonation. But Hoffman finds humanity inside the enigmatic man (granted, that humanity is mostly that of an evil a**hole) and before two minutes of the movie have gone by you are fairly certain you are actually watching Truman Capote act in a movie about his own life. But this is even more than an actor simply disappearing into a role: this is not Jim Carrey playing Andy Kauffman. The stunning depths that Hoffman is able to reach subtly, with a turn of the head, while at the same moment playing such a large, flamboyant characterÂ…well, frankly, it makes me suspect Hoffman is an alien.
But it's not just about Hoffman's performance. The story (a true story, of course) is wrenchingly emotional, but played straight, without heavy-handed melodrama. Catherine Keener plays a sympathetic Harper Lee, a welcome break from the mostly heartless man that was Truman Capote.
- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
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very good
paraphrasing what Tolstoy wrote: all good films are the same, while bad films are each bad in their own way. This movie is very good although I can't really explain what captivated me about it. As Tolstoy said...
- 21.August.2008
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- by: mathilda
- mathilda rated this movie7/10Good
very good
paraphrasing what Tolstoy wrote: all good films are the same, while bad films are each bad in their own way. This movie is very good although I can't really explain what captivated me about it. As Tolstoy said...
- 21.August.2008
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- by: mathilda
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