Factual error: Halfway into the film, a scene shows Capote talking on a beige telephone. The receiver is a modular (plug in) type. Modular phones were not introduced until after 1966. The time frame for this movie is 1959 through 1963. All other scenes in this movie show the correct type of receiver (wired, not plug-in).
Capote (2005)
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Directed by: Bennett Miller
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Allie Mickelson, Craig Archibald, Kelci Stephenson
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Capote stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as the famous American Writer as he researches a Kansas family murder for an upcoming book by interviewing the two convicted of the brutal crime over the course of 4 years. As he gets to know them, he is at once fascinated and horrified by one of the men, Perry, and while Capote travels through literary circles and enjoys his growing celebrity, he is also increasingly haunted by the case and the idea that the men he's grown to know were sentenced to death. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the character as complex, conflicted and driven while the story slowly unfolds. This is not an action film or a very exciting tale but a dramatic look at a writer who at times gets too close to the subject and pays a price for it.
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Truman Capote: It's as if Perry and I grew up in the same house and one day he stood up and went out the back door while I went out the front.
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Chosen answer: He is talking about 'Giovanni's Room' a novel by James Baldwin.