"Capote" ***1/2 (out of four): An Oscar-worthy performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman propels this quiet, slow-moving biopic of the flamboyant writer as he researches the case that would inspire "In Cold Blood".
The biopic “Capote” begins in 1959 when eccentric writer Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is already a famous writer and novelist. Shown as a flamboyant bon vivant, Capote is always the life of the party while harboring the deep loneliness of an outsider. One day he comes upon a small story in the New York Times about the murder of a Kansas family. He travels to the scene of the crime with his friend and fellow writer Harper Lee (Catherine Keener). These early scenes of Capote and the soon-to-be “To Kill a Mockingbird” author patrolling rural Kansas are a joy. In her few scenes, the wonderful Ms. Keener makes you hope a Harper Lee biopic is in the works.
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