Movie Review: CAPOTE

In this biographical movie about author Truman Capote and the writing of "In Cold Blood," actor Phillip Seymore Hoffman plays Capote and delivers what I'm sure will be an Oscar-nominated performance.

The movie focuses not on the murders depicted in "In Cold Blood," but the relationship between Capote and one of the convicted killers. Capote befriends (to some extent) the killer in the process of discovering his perspective on how his life events had led him to the point of committing such an horrific act of violence.

"In Cold Blood" turned out to be the final completed work written by Truman Capote. Many believed -- as did Capote himself -- that writing that book completely exhausted him -- it took the very best of him as he wrote the one of the very best of American literature.

This is a fascinating and illuminating story as much about the eccentric author as it is about his subject.

Don't miss this movie.

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