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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Infamous
2006
**½
Director: Douglas McGrath
Cast: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini, Juliet Stevenson, Sigourney Weaver, Lee Pace

In 1959, Truman Capote becomes fascinated with the brutal murder of a farming family in Kansas. He travels to the nearby town and befriends the locals and the two killers in order to write his nonfictional novel In Cold Blood. A mere year after Capote, Douglas McGrath's drama brings more or less the same story to the screen, which makes this a pretty pointless exercise. Where Bennett Miller's fine film emphasised the author's moral dilemma, McGrath's version concentrates on Capote's personal, perhaps even sexual relationship with one the killers. Toby Jones gives a lively and extremely gay lead performance.