TV Times

Capote will be screened at 6:30pm on Tuesday, July 11 at the American Center, Galle Road, Colombo 3.

Played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal on a writing assignment for The New Yorker, the film follows the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction novel 'In Cold Blood'. The movie was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the autumn of 2004, and was released on 30 September 2005, to coincide with Truman Capote's birthday.

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Bob Balaban, Amy Ryan, and Mark Pellegrino, 'Capote' is a profile of Truman Capote during the years he researched the story that was to become the basis for the book "In Cold Blood".

The movie opens in Kansas with the discovery by a family friend of the dead bodies of the four members of the Clutter family. Truman Capote is a New York celebrity, especially for his work Breakfast at Tiffany's. Like the historical person, the film character has a high-pitched voice.

While reading the Times, he is riveted by the story of the Clutters and calls William Shawn, then the editor of The New Yorker, to announce that he will personally document the tragedy.

He travels to Kansas with his childhood friend Harper Lee and sets about interviewing those involved with the victims, the Clutter family, with Lee as his go-between and interpreter of rural life. When the murderers are apprehended, Capote ingratiates himself with the wife of the town's sheriff and gains access to one of the suspects, Perry Smith, and Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Alvin Dewey. Capote spends the next five years writing his masterpiece, awaiting the outcome of the trials and appeals and the eventual punishment of Smith and his partner in crime, Dick Hickock. Capote has mixed feelings about the last appeal: It means that the case which absorbs his life drags on longer, and he cannot finish his book.

Filmed in 36 days from October 25 to December 1, 2004, as of June 2006, the film had amassed a U.S. box office gross of $28.8 million in America and $19 million in foreign ticket sales.

Philip Seymour won the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama and the film was nominated for the Best Picture at 78th Academy Awards.