Fantastic

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2006)

Why can't more movies be this good? Well written, well acted and just well done all around. I don't see a lot of movies these days, but it's movies like this one that give me faith in Hollywoods ability to tell a good story. Hoffman is outstanding as the brilliant, obsessed, and slightly tortured Capote trying to chronicle the brutal murder of a family in the mid-west for his book "In Cold Blood". And Catherine Keener is also outstanding as his...I guess the right word is side kick. Clifton Collins Jr. was perfect as the outwardly calm, but internally raging Perry Smith. Cinematography, wardrobe, sets,...pretty much everything was really spot on. A great film that I would recommend to anyone.