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Capote (2005)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We hardly knew anything about Truman Capote but this meaty biopic impressed us anyway. Our review covers the outstanding performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the duality of Truman Capote (and maybe investigative journalists and authors generally), his life in the aftermath of the experiences depicted in the film, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everybody welcome back to another bald movie. I'm your host,

0:02.4

de Ron. And I'm Jim. And we are here to talk about the 2005 bio pick?

0:09.7

Uh, Capote, uh, which got nominated for Best Picture, just a slew of picture,

0:16.1

actor nominations. It was directed by Bennett Miller, who's also the

0:21.1

director of Moneyball from 2011, Fox Catcher from 2014 and written by Dan

0:27.2

Futterman who is a writer who also collaborated with Bennett Miller on the movie Fox Catcher.

0:33.2

Both were childhood friends, Philip Seymour Hoffman,

0:37.3

who plays the titular Capote

0:40.3

and took home Oscar Gold for this just amazing and precise

0:47.1

portrayal of this very, very interesting, complicated man

0:52.2

and during a defining period of his life.

0:55.0

It stars, as I said, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Es Capote,

0:59.0

Catherine Keener, who does an amazing job at playing Harper Lee.

1:02.0

Yes, that Harper Lee.

1:02.8

Yes, that Harper Lee, the Killer Mockingbird Harper Lee.

1:06.7

Clifton Collins Jr. who you might remember as Lawrence from Westworld plays a drifter that Capote gets involved in in this murder investigation.

1:18.8

Bruce Greenwood plays Philip, not Philip Seymour, Capote's long-term romantic interest and partner.

1:25.3

Amy Ryan, you might recognize from the office, is also in this movie playing the wife of

1:31.3

an investigator from Kansas and then Chris Cooper.

1:35.2

Chris Cooper is that investigator and he's he's playing the gruff paternal figure that

1:40.4

he always see him in movies.

1:41.6

Sometimes he's a good guy, sometimes he's a bad guy, but he's always gruffing and very fatherly.

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