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Capote (DVD)

Phillip Seymour Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2005 for this film based upon Truman Capote’s writing of In Cold Blood. Initially, Capote started his book as an article for the New Yorker, but his obsession with the 1959 murder of the Clutter family in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas grew into the first of its kind, a nonfiction novel published in 1965. Hoffman is excellent as Capote in this film. The viewer, like Capote, will become enthralled with the killers themselves. Capote even attends the execution of one of the killers, Perry Smith.