Capote DVD

Product Description

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Nominated for 5 Oscars & winner of the Best Actor gong (Philip Seymour Hoffman) this is the much-celebrated drama recounting the events surrounding Capote&s most famous literary work & In Cold Blood& In 1959 Truman Capote a popular writer for The New Yorker learns about the horrific & senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb Kansas Inspired by the story material Capote & his partner Harper Lee travel to the town to research for an article However as Capote digs deeper into the story he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work & In Cold Blood& To that end he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners especially with Perry Smith a quiet & articulate man with a troubled history As he works on his book Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree However that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for the book which only an execution can provide The conflict & mixed motives for both interviewer & subject make for a troubling experience that would produce a literary account that redefined modern non-fiction Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman Catherine Keener Clifton Collins Jr Chris Cooper Bruce Greenwood Bob Balaban Amy Ryan Dan Futterman Mark Pellegrino & Michael J Burg Director Bennett Miller Certificate 15 years & over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; Hindi Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 50 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players