Rotten
Why did they go ahead anyway? Did they believe that an immense Capote audience was hungering for two films about him?
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Infamous
There's more to the story than you know
2006 · 1h 50m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Douglas McGrath
Overview
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Director and cast
- Douglas McGrath Director
- Sigourney Weaver as Babe Paley
- Toby Jones as Truman Capote
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Kitty Dean
- Sandra Bullock as Nelle Harper Lee
- Isabella Rossellini as Marella Agnelli
- Peter Bogdanovich as Bennett Cerf
- Jeff Daniels as Alvin Dewey
- Daniel Craig as Perry Smith
- Juliet Stevenson as Diana Vreeland
- Michael Panes as Gore Vidal
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
74%
Tomatometer
Rotten
All that was painted grey in Capote becomes black-and-white here.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh
Two good films about one subject [are] much better than a lot of bad films about different things.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Fresh
Jones gets everything -- the gestures, the generosity, the mean streak, the bending of the ear to recitals of woe, whether across a lunch table or a prison cell.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
The problem with Infamous isn't that it revisits Capote's turf -- it's that it does the same things well, and leaves the same unsatisfying holes.
Tasha Robinson, AV Club
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