Bennett Miller's CAPOTE is a finely crafted biopic that recounts a historic chapter in American history and in the process captures the unraveling of a truly gifted mind. Starring an extraordinary Philip Seymour Hoffman as the legendary Truman Capote the film concentrates on the seven-year period during which Capote wrote his groundbreaking nonfiction novel IN COLD BLOOD. One morning in 1959 Capote learned of a horrific family killing in Holcomb Kansas. With the intention of writing an article for the New Yorker he traveled to the Midwest with his good friend Nell Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) who was about to publish her own masterwork TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Somehow the soft-spoken eccentric writer managed to earn the trust of local authorities--most notably reserved K.B.I. agent Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper). But when the two killers were caught and returned to Kansas to await trial Capote began to form an intense emotional bond with one of them Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.). The pressu...