quintessential ensemble

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2005)

Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Clifton Collins, Jr. had perfect on screen chemistry. Catherine Keener brought Harper Lee to life. Hoffman transformed himself as Capote with the best performance of this year and many others. Leger had a breakthrough performance in Brokeback Mountain; Daniels was incredible as a pseudo-intellectual bore, spouse and father in The Squid and the Whale, but neither came near Hoffman in their respective performances. As a child of the fifties, when celebrity brought with it talent, and/or exceptional or notorious accomplishment, this movie brought back memories and the experience was sublime. ...a classic.