Infamous

Release Date:

1 May 2010

Synopsis:

When writer and Manhattan society darling, Truman Capote (Toby Jones), reads of the Clutter family murders in Kansas, he is immediately intrigued. He convinces The New Yorker magazine to assign him to write a story. Accompanying him is his friend, Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock), whose book To Kill a... MORE >

When writer and Manhattan society darling, Truman Capote (Toby Jones), reads of the Clutter family murders in Kansas, he is immediately intrigued. He convinces The New Yorker magazine to assign him to write a story. Accompanying him is his friend, Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock), whose book To Kill a Mockingbird is about to be published. Capote eventually wins over Alvin Dewey (Jeff Daniels), the local officer leading the hunt for the killers. The murderers, Perry Smith (Daniel Craig) and Dick Hickock (Lee Pace) are captured, tried and sentenced to die. Capote visits them in jail, now keen to turn the article into a non-fiction novel, but his association with Perry Smith has unexpected emotional consequences.

Cast:

Sigourney Weaver (Avatar, Aliens, Working Girl, Snow Cake), Toby Jones (The Painted Veil, Frost/Nixon, Creation), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love, Emma, Sylvia), Sandra Bullock (Crash, The Blind Side), Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her), Jeff Daniels (Good Night, and Good Luck, The Squid and the Whale), Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Sylvia)

Director:

Douglas McGrath (Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, Company Man)

Genre:

Drama, Dendy

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M Moderate violence, Moderate coarse language, moderate sexual references and sex scene

Run Time:

118 min