Capote (2005)

(New York, Kansas, Spain; 1959-1965)

You’ve heard that Philip Seymour Hoffman embodied Capote in this picture and he did. It is a wonderful performance, made all the more impressive by the fact that Hoffman himself said that he hated Capote, yet was able to render him with such nuance. He was charming yet manipulative, generous yet selfish. He embarked on an investigation of a brutal Kansas quadruple murder, thinking it would simply make a great book, which literary consensus holds that it did. However along the way he became strangely obsessed with the murderers, one of whom, Perry Smith, he said felt like he grow up in the same house with him, only left out the backdoor while Truman left from the front. One of the best True Crime stories ever brought to film.